In this song Jenny Lockyer explores the relationship between Magna Carta, Runnymede, liberty and America. Jenny touches upon how Magna Carta both inspired the creation and then justified the expansion of America, the complex relationship between the American ideal of liberty and its practice and the modern American interest in Runnymede as a site of secular pilgrimage, highlighted in the American visit to Runnymede in 1944 and the 1957 American funded Magna Carta memorial.

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