Appletree

Written by：Erykah Badu/Robert Bradford

It was a stormy night

You know the kind where the lightnin' strike

And I was hangin' out with

Some my artsy friends

Ooh wee ooh wee ooh wee

The night was long the night went on

People coolin' out until the

Break of dawn

Incense was burnin' so I'm feelin' right

Aight

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit

My ganny told me

That when I was only a youth

I don't walk around trying

To be what I'm not

I don't waste my time trying

To get what you got

I work at pleasin' me

'Cause I can't please you

And that's

Why I do what I do

My soul flies free like a willow tree

Doo wee doo wee doo wee

And if you don't want to be

Down with me

Then you don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And if you don't want to be

Down with me

Then you don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And if you don't want to be down with me

Then you don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And you just don't want to be down

I have a hoe

And I take it everywhere I go

'Cause I'm plantin' seeds

So I reaps what I sow

You know

Ohh

On and on and on and on

My cypher keep's movin' like a rollin' stone

I can't control the soul flowin' in me

Doo wee

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit

My ganny told me that

When I was only a youth

I don't walk around trying

To be what I'm not

I don't waste my time trying

To get what ya got

I work at pleasin' me

'Cause I can't please

You and that's why I do what I do

My soul flies free like a willow tree

Doo wee doo wee doo wee

And if you don't want to be down with me

You don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

You don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And if you don't want to be down with me

You don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And if you don't want to be down with me

And you just don't want to be down

And if you don't want to be down with me

You don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And if you don't want to be down with me

You don't dum diddy

And if you don't want to be down with me

You don't want to pick from my

Apple tree

And if you don't want to be down with me

You just don't want to be down

You don't dum diddy

You just don't want to be down

Dum dum diddy

You just don't want to be down