Adam lay y-bounden (Boris Ord)

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Adam lay ybounden, by Boris Ord, sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. The words are 15th century.

Adam lay ybounden,
Bounden in a bond;
Four thousand winter
Thought he not too long.

And all was for an apple,
An apple that he took,
As clerkës finden written
In their book.

Nor had one apple taken been,
The apple taken been,
Then had never Our Lady
A-been heaven's queen.

Blessed be the time
That apple taken was.
Therefore we may singen
Deo gratias!