Goose and Common – Helen Bell [folk viola song accompaniment 2]

Описание: Goose and Common is a 17th-century poem protesting enclosure in England, which has been turned into a song by various people. There's no traditional tune to go with it, so everyone makes up their own (as far as I can tell!). Here's my version. I also thought it needed a chorus, so wrote some extra words too.

More of my songs can be found on my songwriting channel (    / @helenbell   ) – but I thought this one would fit nicely here because of the use of multiple violas.
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Lyrics:
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.

Chorus:
Who remembers when, who remembers how
The crimes committed then became the laws that bind us now?

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break.
This must be so, but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But geese will still a common lack
Until they go and steal it back.

Verse lyrics: traditional
Chorus lyrics + all music: Helen Bell

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