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I Gave My Love a Cherry Lyrics

I gave my love a cherry that had no stone
I gave my love a chicken that had no bone
Told my love a story that had no end
I gave my love a baby with no cryin'

How can you have a cherry that has no stone?
How can you have a chicken that has no bone?
How can there be a story that has no end?
How can there be a baby with no cryin'?

A cherry when it's blooming, it has no stone
A chicken when it's pippin, it has no bone
The story of my love, it has no end
A baby when it's sleeping, there's no cryin'
A baby when it's sleeping, there's no cryin'
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Cover art for I Gave My Love a Cherry lyrics by Joan Baez

A cherry that is plucked while still a flower, a chicken still in the egg, are metaphors for premature birth. A baby that does not cry is stillborn.

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