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Steeleye Span: Mantle of Green

[Steeleye Span / Ken Nicol]

Sung by Maddy Prior on Steeleye Span's CD They Called Her Babylon and live at The Rose Theatre Tewkesbury on April 20, 2004, published on both their video The 35th Anniversary World Tour and the CD The Official Bootleg. Ken Nicol said in the Babylon sleeve notes:

A “Broken Token Ballad”. These are songs that typically contain the theme of two lovers dividing a “token”, normally in the form of a ring, then parting as he goes off to fight in some foreign land. When eventually he returns, by sheer coincidence their paths cross again, but she does not recognise him.

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