“A Is for Apple Pie”
Description
Alphabet song, beginning "A is/stands for apple pie, B baked/bit it" and perhaps ending "And don't you wish you had a piece of apple pie?"
Notes
The first six lines of this piece appear in John Eachard's 1671 pamphlet "Some Observations upon the Answer to an Enquiry into the Grounds & Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy."
It first appears as an educational tool in Mary Cooper's 1743 spelling book, "The Child's New Play-thing," and was common in nineteenth century texts (often under the title, "The Tragical Death of an Apple Pie" or similar). - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "The Logger's Alphabet" (subject) and references there
References
- Randolph 874, "A Is for Apple Pie" (3 texts plus an excerpt, but the "D" text is "The Average Boy")
- Opie-Oxford2 1, "A was an apple-pie" (1 text)
- Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #611, pp. 240-241, "(A was an apple-pie)"
- Roud #7539
- BI, R874