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Thread #73011   Message #1264926
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
05-Sep-04 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Must I Be Bound
Subject: Tune Add: MUST I GO BOUND
Alright, then, since it needs doing. This is the tune that Sedley printed:

X:1
T:Must I go Bound?
B:Stephen Sedley, The Seeds of Love, Essex/EFDSS 1967, 125.
N:Modern collation. Text and tune simplified from Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs, II, 1881, 226-7, with additions from Gale Huntington and Lani Herrmann, Sam Henry's Songs of the People, University of Georgia, 1990, p. 386, plus other material from unacknowledged sources.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:3/4
K:G
(EF)|G F (ED) (B,D)|D E E2 (EF)|
w:Must_ I be bound_ and_ you go free Must_
G F G2 A2|B/B/ A B2 (EF)|G F G2 A (G/A/)|
w:I love one who nev-eer loved me Why_ should I act such a_
B A B2 (BA)|G/G/ F (ED) B, D|D E E2|]
w:child-ish part To_ fol-low a lad_ who will break my heart


Text and tune from Christie, the main basis for Sedley's collation, follows.To play or display ABC tunes, try concertina.net