'Adam Lay Ybounden' - Choir of King's College Cambridge | Classic FM

Based on a 15th-century verse, the choral scholars and choristers of @KingsCollegeChoir perform this contemporary setting of the beloved English carol by Matthew Martin amidst the magnificent, historic surrounds of King's College Chapel, in an exclusive for Classic FM. TEXT 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,