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In 1968, Burl Ives' album "The Times They Are a-Changin'" was released, produced and certainly encouraged by Bob Johnston. The reception of the modern approach was mixed, ranged from "miserable" to "masterpiece". Myself I regard it as the best that ol' guy ever did, and it contained this song : it was the first time I'd heard it.
Written by Bobby Russell, it became a hit for three different artists the same year of '68. First Roger Miller in January, following Patti Page and O. C. Smith. Russell wrote it for Miller, who cut it for the album "A Tender Look at Love", and the single became Miller's final Top Ten C&W hit - if you can call this C&W at all.
Russell wrote this at the same time as "Honey", as an effort to make song lyrics different and more "lyrical" and close. He succeeded. This song is covered by more than 200 artists, and adapted even into hebrew as well as all latin languishes. Himself, he recorded it in June '68; same month as Burl Ives did.
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and I wake up in the mornin'
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with my hair down in my eyes and she says   hi
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and I stumble to the breakfast table
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while the kids are goin' off to school   goodbye
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and she reaches out and takes my hand
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and squeezes it and says   how ya feelin' hon
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and I look across at smilin' lips
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that warm my heart and see my mornin' sun

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and if that's not lovin' me
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then all I've got to say

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is God didn't make little green apples
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and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
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and there's no such thing as Doctor Seuss
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or Disneyland, and Mother Goose   no nursery rhyme
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God didn't make little green apples
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and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
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and when my self is feelin' low
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I think about her face aglow and ease my mind
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Bobby Russell