Two Carols

Adam Lay YBounden/Balulalow

Near, Gerald (b. 1942)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Organ

Occasion:

Proper of Time → Advent → General Advent Season

Publication Information:
Aureole Editions/Morning Star — AE145 (2004)

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
A-been heavene queen.

Blessed be the time
That apple taken was
Therefore we moun singen
Deo gratias. 	
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O my dear hert,
Young Jesu sweet,
Prepare thy creddil in my spreit.
And I sall rock thee in my hert,
And never mair from thee depert.

But I sall praise thee evermore,
With sangis sweet unto thy glor.
The knees of my hert sall I bow,
And sing that richt Balulalow.

Submitted by: Anthony DiCello Added: Mar 16, 2022 Last updated: Mar 16, 2022