'Green growth the holy'

'Green growth the holy' set to various images relating to the sixteenth century. The song is similar to a carol and may have been composed for Christmas revels at court.


The lyrics:

Grene growth the holy
So doth the ive,
Thow winter blastys blow never so hye,
Grene growth the holy.

As the holy grouth grene
And never chaungyth hew,
So I am, ever hath bene,
Unto my lady trew.

Grene growth the holy, etc.

As the holy grouth grene
With ive all alone
When flowerys cannot be sene
And grenewode levys be gone

Grene growth the holy, etc.

Now unto my lady
Promyse to her I make,
Frome all other only
To her I me betake

Grene growth the holy, etc.

Adew, myne owne lady,
Adew, my specyall,
Who hath my hart trewly.
Be suere, and ever shall.

Grene growth the holy, etc.


I'm too lazy to list information about all the images but if anyone wants details about a certain image then I will post it.

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Tags:

• Henry
• VIII
• court
• music
• green
• growith
• the
• holy
• sixteenth
• century
• Tudor

[livefromreno]

It's holly, not holy, but still a prtty song by Henry VIII.

[littlemisssunnydale]

The title is in early modern English where different spellings were endorsed for the same word. So whilst we spell the word as 'holly' back then it could be spelt in various ways like 'holy' or 'holly' etc. Ultimately it means the same thing. The full original lyrics are available in the info box.

[XxCrazygal2007xX]

its lovely i love tudor songs, you should post more

where do you get them all from?

[littlemisssunnydale]

There tends to be various albums available on Amazon and Ebay which contain Tudor music. I usually rely on Ebay as I have purchased several albums on there for under £5. I usually find the albums under 'Tudor CD' or 'Henry VIII CD'.

[justlooking213]

I look for this song every Christmas! Where did you get it?!?

[littlemisssunnydale]

I discovered it on a random CD; I can send it to you if you like?

[12Antoniobu]

@TudorRose85 Wrong. Henry did not compose "Greensleeves", which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian style of composition that did not reach England until after his death

[Albukhshi]

@ytcomposer

well, from the early 1500's anyhow. you should see what it sounded like in the1390's-it's literally a different language.

[ytcomposer]

WOW. That's authentic "Original Pronunciation" English. Gorgeous.

[Murdoc2Dbabe]

who is the woman at 0:18?

[EmzLuvzCatz]

@littlemisssunnydale good video, who is the girl in the portrait at 0:17?

[Murdoc2Dbabe]

@littlemisssunnydale could you please send it to me it would be greatly appreciated if you did :)

[Murdoc2Dbabe]

I've heard this song was written for catherine of aragon

[danilol7]

@TudorRose85 i read in a book that it was written for anne and i do believe it but we can never know for certain

[TudorRose85]

@danilol7 I'm sorry but your wrong it was written for Katharine of Aragon. Crack a book!

[danilol7]

@TudorRose85 this was written for anne not catherine

[couprie]

@littlemisssunnydale One can observe the same phenomenon in other languages too. In Early modern Dutch for instance, the word "hood" ("head", "hoofd" in contemporary Dutch) could be spelt "hood", "hoot" or "hoet". To make it really confusing, "hoet" could also be the contemporary word "hoed", meaning "hat".

Interesting enough the pronunciation used in this recording (and in many of the the recordings you ave uploaded) sounds much closer to Dutch than contemporary English does. :)