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{{TuneAnnotation
|f_tune_annotation_title=  https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:June_Apple >
|f_annotation='''JUNE APPLE [1]'''. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Virginia. A Mixolydian. Standard or AEae (Tommy Jarrell) tunings (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (most versions). A June apple is an early ripening variety of apple, maturing in the spring in the southern United States. It tends to be smaller and more tart then later-ripening apples. Most versions of the tune are in the mixolydian mode, although Benton Flippen (b. 1920, Surry Country, N.C.) plays it in A major. The late Mt. Airy, North Carolina, fiddler Tommy Jarrell [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Jarrell] (1901-1985) sang these words to the second strain:
[[File:jarrellcockerham.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham]] 
<blockquote>
''Wish I was a June Apple''<br>
''Hanging on a tree''<br>
''Every time my true love passed''<br>
''She'd take a little bite of me''<br>
<br>
''Going across the mountain''<br>
''I'm Going in a swing''<br>
''When I get on the other side''<br>
''I'm gonna hear my woman sing''<br>
<br>
''Don't you hear that banjo saying''<br>
''I wish that gal was mine''<br>
''Can't you hear that banjo saying''<br>
''I wish that gal was mine''<br>
<br>
''Charlie he's a nice young man''<br>
''Charlie he's a dandy''<br>
''Charlie he's a nice young''<br>
''He feeds the gals on candy''<br>
<br>
''Over the river to feed my sheep''<br>
''Over the river Charlie''<br>
''Over the river to feed my sheep''<br>
''Feed them on barley''<br>
<br>
''Wish I had some sticks and poles''<br>
''Build my chimney higher''<br>
''Ever time it rains or snows''<br>
''Puts out all my fire''<br>
</blockquote>
Joel Shimberg points out that the lyrics to "[[Train on the Island]]" scan for the "June Apple" melody and are sometimes sung to it as 'floating verses.' 
|f_source_for_notated_version=Red Clay Ramblers (N.C.) [Brody]; Uncle Charlie Higgins (Galax, Va.) [Krassen]; Allan Block and Andy May [Spadaro]; W.B. Reid/M. Gaponoff [Silberberg]; Carthy Sisco [Silberberg]; Benton Flippen (Surry Co., N.C.) via Jody Stecher [Fiddler Magazine]; Tommy Jarrell [Milliner & Koken]. 
|f_printed_sources=Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 153. '''Fiddler Magazine''', Winter 2008/09, vol. 15, No. 4; p. 8. Johnson ('''Kitchen Musician No. 2: Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes'''), 1982 (revised 1988, 2003); p. 6. Krassen ('''Appalachian Fiddle'''), 1973; pp. 34–35. Milliner & Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 352. Phillips ('''Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time Southern'''), 1989; p. 24. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 130. Silberberg ('''Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 79 (two versions). Susan Songer with Clyde Curley ('''Portland Collection vol. 3'''), 2015; p. 109. Spadaro ('''10 Cents a Dance'''), 1980; p. 37. 
|f_recorded_sources=5-String Productions, Alice Gerard, Gail Gillespie & Sharon Sandomirsky - "The Road to Agate Hill" (2006. From Tommy Jarrell & Luther Davis).  
Chubby Dragon CD1008, Brad Leftwich, Bruce Molsky et al – "Mountairy.usa" (2001).
County 713, Cockerham, Jarrell, and Jenkins – "Down to the Cider Mill" (Tommy Jarrell learned the tune from his father, Ben Jarrell).
County 7415, Tommy Jarrell – "Stay All Night" (1973).
Folkways FTS 331038, Roger Sprung and Hal Wylie – "Bluegrass Blast."
Heritage 054, Smokey Valley Boys – "Brandywine '83: Music of French America" (1984).
Marimac AHS #3, Glen Smith – "Say Old Man" (1990. Learned from Tommy Jarrell).
Marimac 9000, Dan Gellert & Shoofly – "Forked Deer" (1986. Learned from Tommy Jarrell).
Oak Records OOK CD 001, "Brittany Haas" (2004). 
Tennvale 002, Red Clay Ramblers – "Galax '73."
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/j07.htm#Junap]<br>
Hear a 1999 recording of the Sim Top Ramblers at Berea Digital Content [http://cdm272901.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15131coll4/id/4405/rec/3]<br>
Hear banjo player Neal 'Pop' Collins (c. 1970's) at Digital Library of Appalachia [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Berea43&CISOPTR=3593&CISOBOX=1&REC=2]<br>
Hear Tommy Jarrell's 1973 recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/june-apple]<br>
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