From the album 'Southbound'

[Introduction]
     
    
    
    

[Verse 1]
             
I gave my love

             
 a cherry that

        
 had no stone;
            
I gave my love

             
 a chicken tha

         
t had no bone;
            
I gave my love

             
 a baby with n

    
o crying,
            
And told my lo

             
ve a story tha

         
t had no end.

[Verse 2]
             
How can there 

             
be a cherry th

          
at has no ston

e?
            
How can there 

             
be a chicken t

           
hat has no bon

e?
            
How can there 

             
be a baby with

       
 no crying?
            
How can you te

             
ll a story tha

         
t has no end? 

[Instrumental]
     
    
    
    

[Verse 3]
             
A cherry when 

             
it's blooming,

           
 it has no sto

ne;
            
And a chicken 

             
when it's pipp

              
ing, there is 

   
no bone;
            
A baby when it

             
's sleeping, t

            
here's no cryi

ng,
            
And when I say

             
 I love you, i

         
t has no end.

[Verse 4]
             
I gave my love

             
 a cherry that

        
 had no stone;
            
I gave my love

             
 a chicken tha

         
t had no bone;
            
I gave my love

             
 a baby with n

    
o crying,
            
And told my lo

             
ve a story tha

         
t had no end.