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MUST I BE BOUND (Roud 18829)
The heart-rending version sung by June Tabor was my first experience of this song - and what an experience. Another ancient song with many versions, Must I Be Bound was collected in 1905 from the singing of Jacob Baker in Bere Regis, Dorset, by H.E.D. Hammond. The storytelling and human emotion in this song is stark and eloquent.

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Must I be bound, while you go free?
Must I love one who never loved me?
Must I enact such a foolish part,
As to follow one who would break my heart?

The first gift that my love gave me,
It was a cap well-lined with lead.
And the longer that I wore that cap,
It grew the heavier upon my head.

You gave to me a mantle for to wear,
Well-lined with grief, and stitched with care.
And the drink you gave me was bitter gall,
And the blows you gave to me were worse than all.

But I will climb the high, high tree
And I will rob the wild bird's nest,
And I will fall without a fear,
And find the one who loves me the best.

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from The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs, released May 1, 2022
Trad. Arr: Angeline Morrison
Vocals: Angeline Morrison

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Angeline Morrison and The Ambassadors of Sorrow

"Bewitching and otherworldly... Morrison's voice is eerily confiding, strangely present, insistent even at its quietest" Folk Radio UK.

Believing in the beauty of sad songs, weaving folk, soul and beat sounds of the '60s into a tapestry of the human heart. Homespun sounds that reside in a nostalgic universe.

"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing.
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