DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE (With Anyone Else But Me)
From the Broadway Musical "Yokel Boy" (1939)
(Lew Brown / Sam H. Stept / Charles Tobias)

Glenn Miller & His Orch. (vocal: Marion Hutton & Tex Beneke) - 1942
Kay Kyser & His Orch. (vocal: Sully Mason) - 1942
Les Brown & His Orch. (vocal: Butch Stone) - 1942
The Andrews Sisters (feat. in the film "Private Buckaroo") - 1942
Ivor Moreton & Dave Kaye (Instr.) - 1942
Bob Crosby & His Orch. (vocal: Bob Crosby) - 1943
The Modernaires with Paula Kelly - 1946
The Four Knights - 1955
Lionel Newman & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1957
Judy Allen - 1959
Mitch Miller & The Gang - 1962
The Andrews Sisters - 1963 (Re-recording)
Bing Crosby - 1963
Don Day Curtis - 1963
Jimmy, Sandra & Pam - 1963
George Mitchell Minstrels - 1966
Teresa Brewer - 1982

Also recorded by:
Dave Brubeck; Amanda Carr; Coleman Hawkins Quartet; Dolores Hope; 
BBC Big Band; Tony Evans Orch.; Göran Ödner; Sue Schnitzer; Tiny Tim;
Bombay Jim & The Swinging Sapphires; Bone Bird & Dock Flock Brass; 
Joe Dassin; Ondrej Havelka; Marilyn King; Barry Manilow; John Pizzarelli;
Graham Dalby & The Grahamophones ....... and others.





As recorded by MARION HUTTON, TEX BENEKE
& THE MODERNAIRES with Glenn Miller & His Orch., 18th February 1942:


TEX BENEKE:
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me
No! No! No!
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Till I come marchin' home

Don't go walkin' down Lover's Lane with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me
No! No! No!
Don't go walkin' down Lover's Lane with anyone else but me
Till I come marchin' home

I just got word from a guy who heard from the guy next door to me
The girl he met just loves to pet and it fits you to-a-tee
So, don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Till I come marchin' home

MARION HUTTON
Don't give out with those lips of yours to anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me
No! No! No!
Watch the girls on the foreign shores, you'll have to report to me
When you come marchin' home

Don't hold anyone on your knee, you better be true to me
You better be true to me, you better be true to me
Don't hold anyone on your knee, you're gettin' the third degree
When you come marchin' home

You're on your own where there is no phone and I can't keep tabson you
Be fair to me, I'll guarantee this is one thing that I'll do
I won't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but you
Till you come marchin' home

ALL:
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
I know the apple tree is reserved for you and me
And I'll be true till you come marchin' home


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Opening verse as recorded by THE ANDREWS SISTERS in 1942:


I wrote my mother, I wrote my father
And now I'm writing you, too
I'm sure of mother, I'm sure of father
And now I wanta be sure, very very sure of you


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As re-recorded by THE ANDREWS SISTERS in 1963:


Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, No! No! No!
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Till I come home to you

Don't go walkin' down Lover's Lane with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, No! No! No!
Don't go walkin' down Lover's Lane with anyone else but me
Till I come home to you

I'm so afraid the plans we made beneath those moonlit skies
Will fade away, you're bound to stray if the stars get in your eyes
So don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Till I come home to you

Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, No!
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Till I come swingin' home

Don't go up and down Lover's Lane with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, No!
Don't go walkin' down Lover's Lane with anyone else but me
Till I come swingin' home

I just got word from a girl who heard from the girl next door to me
The boy she met just loves to pet and it fits you to a T
So, don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Till I come swingin', really swingin', I'll come swingin' home


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2018)