Name: Locks and Bolts
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: An English balled collected by Kennedy in Somerset, but also documented widely across the south of England, and in America. We've wondered about the psychological significance of selecting a song about imprisonment to sing during lockdown (the connection only came to us afterwards!) We thoroughly enjoyed creating percussion by recording the actual sounds of keys in locks, and bolts being shot!

Locks and Bolts

from Henry Martin by Edgelarks: Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin

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An English balled collected by Kennedy in Somerset, but also documented widely across the south of England, and in America. We've wondered about the psychological significance of selecting a song about imprisonment to sing during lockdown (the connection only came to us afterwards!) We thoroughly enjoyed creating percussion by recording the actual sounds of keys in locks, and bolts being shot!

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Twas over the hills, twas over the hills
Twas over the hills and the valleys
Where my true love was kept from me
Quite out of spite and malice

I went unto her father's house
Enquiring for my jewel
They answered me, She's not at home
She's in her uncle's keeping

I went unto her uncle's house
Enquiring for my jewel
They answered me, She is not here
Which proved to my heart cruel

This fair maid hearing of his voice
Put her head out of the window
She said, My dear you're welcome here
But locks and bolts do hinder
Locks and bolts do hinder

He stood a moment all in amaze
All in amaze and humour
Till at length he drew, and in passion flew
And the door he broke asunder

Her uncle's servant he being at home
Soon after did he follow
He said, Young man you must quit this room
Or in your own blood wallow

He took his true love all by the hand
His sword all in the other
Said he, If you have more right than I,
Take one and fight the other
Take one and fight the other

And now this couple in wedlock are joined
They do adore each other
They oft times think all on that day
When the door he broke asunder
When locks and bolts did hinder
When locks and bolts did hinder

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from Henry Martin, released December 11, 2020

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