Lyrics:

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Blessed be the time
The apple taken was
Therefore we moun singen
Deo gracias

And all was for an apple,
An apple that he tok,
As clerkes finden
Wreten in here book.

And all was for an apple,
An apple that he tok,
As clerkes finden
Wreten in here book.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Blessed be the time
The apple taken was
Therefore we moun singen
Deo gracias

Never had the apple taken,
The apple taken ben,
Ne hadde never our lady,
A ben Hevene Quen.

Never had the apple taken,
The apple taken ben,
Ne hadde never our lady,
A ben Hevene Quen.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Adam lay ybounden
Bounden in a bond;
Foure thousand winter,
Thought he not too long.

Never had the apple taken,
The apple taken ben,
Ne hadde never our lady,
A ben Hevene Quen.

Never had the apple taken,
The apple taken ben,
Ne hadde never our lady,
A ben Hevene Quen.