Name: Bird In A Cage
Duration: P00H04M08S
Description: We came across this song quite by chance during online research for another project. The version found in Sharp's English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians is called False True Love, but there was something about this more fragmentary version which caught our attention. It lends itself to some driving rhythms and improvised solos.

Bird In A Cage

from Henry Martin by Edgelarks: Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin

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We came across this song quite by chance during online research for another project. The version found in Sharp's English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians is called False True Love, but there was something about this more fragmentary version which caught our attention. It lends itself to some driving rhythms and improvised solos.

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As I walked out one May morning
To hear the birds so sweet
I hid myself in a green shady dell
And I watched two lovers meet

You courted me, was what she said
Til you got me to comply
You courted me, with a merry, merry mood
All night with you I lie

And when your heart was mine, false love
And your head lay on my breast
You could make me believe by the fall of your arm
That the sun rose in the west

I wish your breast was made of glass
That all in it might behold
I'd write our secret on your breast
In letters made of gold

There's many a girl can go about
And hear the birds so sweet
While I, poor girl, must stay at home
And rock my cradle, and weep

There's many a star shall dwindle in the west
There's many a leaf below
There's many a curse shall light on a man
For treating a poor girl so

I could sing as lonely a song
As any little bird in a cage
Who twelve long months astray has gone
Just fifteen years of age

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from Henry Martin, released December 11, 2020

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