My daddy told us all my life not to play in those apple trees over there, long time ago

They hung a bunch of men right there in that circle of apple trees, yeah

Back in the Calvary days, 300 men, they marched across the wrong land at night

They were hungry and they could smell the apples coming from those apple trees

300 men are hungry, 300 men are thirsty, 300 men need to rest just like you and me

The enemy army was all over the circle of apple trees inside, all over, hiding in the grass, yeah

300 men was hungry, didn't care, it didn't on dawn them

But the enemy army was sitting in the circle of apple trees, yeah

300 men, 300 men, they came, they came 300 men to the circle of apple trees

One by one, they were picked off, bullets right through the head

Massacred, cause they was hungry for, they were thirsty for

They were tired, 300 men, met their death, 300 men, not one was left

They hung the rest from these apple trees

Don't climb in them trees boys, my daddy said to me

Don't climb in them trees

Don't climb in them apple trees