Greensleeves

Legend has it that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII but no evidence exists to prove this, However a ballad with the same name was registered in 1580.

Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved you well and long,
Delighting in your company.

Chorus:
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves.

Your vows you've broken, like my heart,
Oh, why did you so enrapture me?
Now I remain in a world apart
But my heart remains in captivity.

chorus

I have been ready at your hand,
To grant whatever you would crave,
I have both wagered life and land,
Your love and good-will for to have.

chorus

If you intend thus to disdain,
It does the more enrapture me,
And even so, I still remain
A lover in captivity.

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My men were clothed all in green,
And they did ever wait on thee;
All this was gallant to be seen,
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

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Thou couldst desire no earthly thing,
but still thou hadst it readily.
Thy music still to play and sing;
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

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Well, I will pray to God on high,
that thou my constancy mayst see,
And that yet once before I die,
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.

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Ah, Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu,
To God I pray to prosper thee,
For I am still thy lover true,
Come once again and love me.

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• Greensleeves
• Classical
• Country
• Folk
• Pop
• World
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[melglen1]

thumbs up if you love music from the 80s iam mean the 1680s

[wicaco]

@0vedi0 Mozart didn't write Greensleeves. It's an old English folk song that predates Mozart by at least two centuries.

[sebastiansap2003]

@HarryBodensson No problem, Harry.

[HarryBodensson]

@sebastiansap2003

Fair enough Seb mistook you for one of "them".

[sebastiansap2003]

@HarryBodensson I just saying its "ironic how the Irish like to claim English tunes were written by them, and yet a song like (Danny Boy) that's supposed to be so Irish was actually written by an Engishman" That's it Harry nothing more nothing less. Take care.

[HarryBodensson]

@sebastiansap2003

Whats your point? We don't claim the tune.

[sebastiansap2003]

@HarryBodensson LOL.The ballad Danny Boy was written by an English lawyer called Frederic Weatherly an he set it to the Irish tune Londonderry Air.

[HarryBodensson]

Oh here we go again bloody hell, The song is English! I don't go round stealing Danny Boy or whatever.....

They just can't bear that the English have written this great song

[GustavoCLa]

@Midasu1 Ok, maybe you already knew that.

[GustavoCLa]

@Midasu1 The folk song is from the 1580s, but this music on this video is a classical music made by Richard Vaughann-Williams in the end of the XXth century, based on the folk song.

[TalonMercenary]

@GustavoCLa Well, yeah, he went a bit mad in old age, but as a young man Henry was apparently very handsome and athletic

[Midasu1]

@melglen1 This is from the 1580s