Johnny Appleseed - Mia Doi Todd

A soft bed and someone else’s shoes

Come inside, stay a while

Rest your tired feet

Haunted by a recurring dream

Of a girl you left from hanging from an apple tree

Johnny appleseed, wanders the countryside

Keeping to his task to keep out the rest

Johnny appleseed, bright fresh from heaven sighed

«please let me make it up to strangers» in ohio all the farmers wives

Thanked you with fresh apple pies

And hurried to mend

The tears in your pants

Dumbfounded by their kindness

And embarassed by your shyness

You slipped out the back door

At the first chance

Haunted by a recurring dream

Of a girl you left from hanging from an apple tree

Johnny appleseed, wanders the countryside

Keeping to his task to keep out the rest

Johnny appleseed, bright fresh from heaven sighed

«please let me make it up to strangers» the famished cow you rescued from

The wealthy rotten farmer john

Offered in gratitude

To turn itself to gold

But you declined the offer

Saying «that was not for profit»

And ushered the stragler back into her fold

Haunted by a recurring dream

Of a girl you left from hanging from an apple tree

Johnny appleseed, wanders the countryside

Keeping to his task to keep out the rest

Johnny appleseed, bright fresh from heaven sighed

«please let me make it up to strangers»