Greensleeves Lyrics needed
har...@delphi.com
1500's?
Any help would be appreciated.
Email to Har...@Delphi.com
Thanks, Jon
Martha Radetsky
To cast me out discourtiously
When I have loved you oh so long
Delighting in your company
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my lady Greensleeves
I hath been ready at thy hand
To grant wantever thou would crave
I have both wvaed my life and land
My love and goodwill for you to have
Greensleeves was....
That's all I know. There are probably several more verses. Good luck in your
serch. Please excuse spelling errors.
Martha
,
Rick Lee
from Digital Tradition at
http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/digitrad/list=100
GREENSLEEVES
[text score or songwright or audio]
GREENSLEEVES
(poss. Henry VIII of England, 1500's.)
Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved you well and long,
Delighting in your company.
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.
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.
If you intend thus to disdain,
It does the more enrapture me,
And even so, I still remain
A lover in captivity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@courting
recorded by Deller Consort on Best Loved Songs
also Dyer-Bennett
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(DT of April 1995)
Rick
Chris Oort
>Does anyone know the lyrics to the very old song "greensleeves" from about the 1500's?
It seems to me that some posted questions could have been prevented
if the authors would look at the sources available under Internet.
Starting from Yahoo, select Entertainment, then Music, then Lyrics.
Or go directly via http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Lyrics/
There you find 14 sources for lyrics. I like the Digital Tradition,
where you can search on words in lyrics, or by title, or hear tunes.
Of course they also have Greensleeves. Below I include it.
Chris Oort, Holland
Abby Sale
>Try the folk music archive at the University of Penn at Philadelphia .
>They have a site on the web with lyrics of all folk songs. Sorry I
>don't remember their URL.
Les,
I'd be very interested in this myself if you can find it. I spent
many hours at Penn listening to their marvelous _78rpm_ collection
(back when I was a student at the turn of the century.)
I recently searched the web & found _reference_ to the archive (I'd
love to see Mac Leach's sadly unpublished collection!) in Penn's
general pages. I didn't, however find any real online stuff or hard
info.
Maybe I missed something?
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abby...@digital.net
As I sat under the apple tree,
A birdie sent his love to me,
And as I wiped it from my eye,
I said, Thank goodness, cows can't fly.
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Abby Sale
>har...@delphi.com wrote:
>>Does anyone know the lyrics to the very old song "greensleeves" from about the 1500's?
>
>It seems to me that some posted questions could have been prevented
>if the authors would look at the sources available under Internet.
>Or go directly via http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Lyrics/
>
>There you find 14 sources for lyrics. I like the Digital Tradition,
Well, some people aren't as smart as you or I. And some people don't
have access. In that search, I only saw DT itself that dealt with
folk. Perhaps a better search might be
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Folk/ which yields 72
sources including a number of other lyrics repositories.
Belvoir
The lyrics to Greensleeves (several versions) along with 5300 other
lyrics and 2900 tunes appear in the new Oct. 1995 edition of The Digital
Tradition. Don't look for songs without it!
dick greenhaus