Adam Lay Ybounden

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Occasion:

Proper of Time → Advent → General Advent Season
Commons → Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary → In Advent

Publication Information:
Oxford University Press — 94.311 (1999)
ISBN 0-19-386225-5

Text Information:
Reference: Anonymous, 15th century

Lyrics:

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 clerkes finden written
In their book.

Ne had the apple taken been,
The apple taken been,
Ne had never our lady 
Abeen heavenè queen.

Blessed be the time
That apple taken was.
Therefore, we moun singen
Deo Gratias!

Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Feb 5, 2022