Bonfire Radicals - I Wish
Channel: Bonfire Radicals
Date: 2021-04-19

Bonfire Radicals perform traditional song 'I Wish'

Recorded live on 27/03/21 at Six Ways Church, Birmingham, for Erdington Arts Forum.

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I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain,
I wish I was a maid again,
But a maid again I nere can be,
Since that boy lay still with me.

I wish my babe it were born,
And smiling on his Daddy's knee,
And I would been in yon churchyard,
With long, green grass, growing over me.

Oh when my apron strings hung low,
He followed me through frost and snow,
But now my apron's to my chin,
He passes by and he says nothing.

Oh there's an alehouse in this town,
When my love goes and sits himself down,
He takes this strange girl on his knee,
And isn't that a grief to me.

Oh grief, oh grief, I'll tell you why,
That girl has more gold than I,
More gold than I, more beauty, more pain,
But she will come like me again.

I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain,
I wish I was a maid again,
But a maid again I nere can be,
'Til apples grow from an orange tree.

Arts forum team:

Cameras - Alex Troman, Mitch Thomas & Rachel Bradley

Vision - Kurtis 

Sound - Paul Withers

Producer - Jobe Sullivan