"Ringo no Uta" (りんごのうた, "A Song of Apples") is a single by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena, released on November 25, 2003. Described as a "turning point single" by Sheena, it was her final release as a solo artist before joining the band Tokyo Jihen in 2004, and her final single featuring her signature mole. The song was used in a stop-motion work created for NHK's Minna no Uta series of short animations.

In 2003 after a period of inactivity, Sheena released the album Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana led by the single "Stem". She performed a special concert, Baishō Ecstasy on the day of the album's release, February 23, 2003, and performed an 11 date tour in September 2003, Sugoroku Ecstasy. This tour featured a backing band that would become Tokyo Jihen, her main musical unit, until 2012. It had been Sheena's intention to be release music in a band since before she debuted in 1998.

The song was first written in May 2003, and was recorded along with "La salle de bain" in July. As the song was created for Minna no Uta, Sheena rendered the song's lyrics entirely in simple hiragana, including her and arranger Takayuki Hattori's names. The release was described as a turning point single (節目シングル, fushime shinguru) during promotions, a title given to her Electric Mole DVD as well. The single's release date, November 25, 2003, was Sheena's 25th birthday. On this day, she recorded a song called "Kokoro" as a present to other people, which was released on her band's single "Sōnan" 11 months later.

The B-side "La salle de bain" is a classically re-arranged version of Sheena's song "Yokushitsu" from her album Shōso Strip (2000), arranged by Neko Saito and featuring English lyrics translated by Robbie Clark. The song was originally released three months prior to the single, on the Seiteki Healing: Sono San DVD, which featured a Shuichi Banba-directed video of the song.

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