Tim Hart and Maddy Prior recorded this song on their album Summer Solstice where its length is given as 26 seconds, but it works. The same album contains some other very short (and very old) pieces: "Of All the Birds" - 53 seconds, and "Adam Catched Eve" - 23 seconds. Likewise, their Folk Songs Of Old England, Vol. 1 contains "Adam And Eve" - 55 seconds.
"Westron Wynd" is often included in poetry anthologies and literature textbooks, but instead of "Christ, if my love were in my arms/And I in my bed again," it was often bowdlerized as "OH, if my love were in my arms/OR I in my bed again."
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