[[Image:CherryRipe1879 by John Everett Millais.jpg|thumb|300px|The Graphics chromolithograph of Cherry Ripe (1879) by John Everett Millais (1829–96)]]Cherry Ripe''' is an English song with words by poet Robert Herrick (1591–1674) and music by Charles Edward Horn (1786–1849) which contains the refrain, Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, Ripe I cry, Full and fair ones Come and buy. Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, Ripe I cry, Full and fair ones Come and buy. An earlier poem by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) used the same title Cherry Ripe, and has other similarities. It is thought that the refrain originated as a trader's street cry. The song's title has been used in other contexts on a number of occasions since and its tune has also been appropriated for other uses. The song was popular in the 19th century and at the time of World War I. Alternative Lyrics During the late 1800s, an alternative version of the song briefly appeared. The lyrics were as follows Cherry Ripe, Cherry Ripe Ripe I cry Full and fair ones Till I die Cherry ripe, Cherry ripe Mouse and I River's where we're Till you die In popular culture The song is mentioned in the 1889 farcical novel The Wrong Box, written by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, in a passage discussing the ubiquity of the penny whistle in late 19th century England, as one of two songs every player of that instrument invariably blows. The song "Cherry Ripe" is a recurring theme in John Buchan's World War I spy novel Mr Standfast (1919). It identifies Mary Lamington, a young intelligence officer, who falls in love, mutually, with the hero of the novel, General Richard Hannay. The song is mentioned in Dylan Thomas's 1955 A Child's Christmas in Wales. The song is mentioned in Book Two, Chapter 16 of George Eliot's 1871 Middlemarch. Several characters of Iris Murdoch's Booker-prize winning novel The Sea, the Sea (1978), sing "Cherry Ripe" as they land into a party mood. It is sung by Maud Chapman (played by Hilda Bayley) in the 1942 film, Went the Day Well?. In the classic 1957 British horror film Night of the Demon (released as Curse of the Demon in North America) the medium uses this song to attain a trance. It is heard in the 1958 film Smiley Gets a Gun, sung by Ruth Cracknell's character, Mrs Gaspen. In the 1960 film Bottoms Up it is sung