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Died For Love

from A Twelvemonth and a Day by Mark Automaton

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When my true love courted me
He stole away my liberty.
My liberty and my right good will
But I'll confess that I love him still.

There is an ale-house in yonder town,
Where my love goes and he sits him down;
He takes another girl on his knee
And tells her things that he won't tell me

I wish my baby it was born
And smiling on its father's knee;
And I myself was in my grave
With the green grass growing over me.

I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain,
I wish I was a maid again.
But a maid again I will never be
Till apples grow on an orange tree.

Go dig me a grave both wide and deep
Put marble stones at my head and feet
And on my breast a snow white dove
To show the world that I died for love

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from A Twelvemonth and a Day, released May 11, 2019

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Mark Automaton UK

Mark Automaton came to prominence as a founding member of the seminal “cassette culture” band the Instant Automatons, who were instrumental in spearheading the UK DIY music scene of the late 70s and early 80s.
Since then, Mark has been active as a producer, musical collaborator and solo artist, releasing music under his own name and also as 391 and randomk/automata.
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