Greensleeves
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- Published: 19 Aug 2006
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Images of nature with Greensleeves performed by David Nevue. 3.8 million views!
Greensleeves
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The Tudors: Greensleeves (Henry/Anne)
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- Duration: 2:53
- Published: 23 Dec 2007
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- Author: hiserature
A Henry/Anne Music Video with Greensleeves as the background music. The clips are from "The Tudors". The song is "Greensleeves" by Roger McGuinn. I only use half of the song in this video.
Greensleeves -- By The king's Singer's (This has vocals!)
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- Duration: 3:19
- Published: 05 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 05 Sep 2011
- Author: pitbikecrazy
Images of nature, HenryVlll and his wifes also random waterfall pictures it's a really relaxing song and chills you out there's another version called 'what child is this?' Lyrics: Alas, my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously and I have loved you 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 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 Greensleeves was all my joy Greensleeves was my delight Greensleeves was my heart of gold And who but my lady Greensleeves 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 Greensleeves was all my joy Greensleeves was my delight Greensleeves was my heart of gold And who but my lady Greensleeves (lyrics give to me by prup3) Thanks by King Singers
Blackmore's Night:Green Sleeves
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- Duration: 3:45
- Published: 13 Feb 2008
- Uploaded: 05 Sep 2011
- Author: necrotimmy
Blackmore's Night
The King's Singers - Greensleeves
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 21 May 2009
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- Author: thekingssingers
Taken from the 2008 BBC Proms concert in the Royal Albert Hall London
Greensleeves
Many people are asking me for the guitar tabs of the song. Since I don't have them, anybody who is really interested can send me as Skype chat message (edusa) and I will return a video call and teach you how to play it. It's quite easy. Other than that, I (or rather my company) offer(s) various services including video production, Web -and graphic design, and consultant services ranging from personal improvement to commercial and industrial development (eur0tec.com) Youll have to copy/paste that or it wont work!
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. chorus 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. chorus 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. chorus 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. chorus 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.
Greensleeves by Vanessa Carlton
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- Duration: 3:36
- Published: 27 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 04 Sep 2011
- Author: kamibutterfly713
This is a really nice song performed by Vanessa Carlton. Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me out discourteously; When I have loved you so so long Delighting in your company. Your gown was of the grassy green Your sleeves of satin were hanging by Which made you be a harvest queen Yet you would not love me Green sleeves was my all my joy Green sleeves was my delight, Green sleeves was my heart of gold And who but my lady green sleeves. Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me out discourteously; When I have loved you so so long Delighting in your company.
Amy Nuttall - Greensleeves
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- Duration: 4:13
- Published: 19 Jul 2009
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- Author: tacosandcheese
EDIT (11/02/2011): 100000 VIEWS! Thanks all! I'm glad People have good Taste! =============== Artist: Amy Nuttall Album: Best Days Title: Greensleeves --- Song Lyrics --- Alas, my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company, My smock of gold so crimson red, With pearls bedecked sumptuously. The like no other lasses had, And yet thou wouldst not love me. - Chorus - x1 Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight; Greensleves was my heart of gold, And who but my Greensleeves? 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 pray to God on high, That my constancy mayest see, And that yet once before I die, Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me. - Repeat Chorus - x1 Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight; Greensleves was my heart of gold, And who but my Greensleeves? Greensleeves, farewell! Adieu! God I pray t prosper thee; For I am still thy lover true, Come once again and love me. Aahh... Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but my Greensleeves?
Adagio Trio - Greensleeves - harp, flute, cello
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- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 10 Nov 2008
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- Author: GothicFlamer
Adagio Trio - Meditative Music - Greensleeves harp, flute, cello Check their website www.nvo.com
John Coltrane "Greensleeves" (1961)
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 13 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 03 Sep 2011
- Author: rovingeye2
From the album "Live! at the village vanguard" (1961). John Coltrane — tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone Eric Dolphy — bass clarinet McCoy Tyner — piano Reggie Workman — double bass Elvin Jones — drums
Greensleeves - traditional English song
Handsome, gifted and recently married to Catherine of Aragon, King Henry VIII was the envy of Europe when he penned 35 royal compositions in the early years of his long and turbulent reign. (Thirty-five Compositions Ref: E1801 The complete secular works of King Henry VIII consisting of partsongs and instrumental consorts. Publisher Stainer & Bell) Truly a Renaissance prince, he was also a gifted composer who excelled in portraying the pleasures of courtly life through words and music. His daughter, Elizabeth, inherited his gifts, and was a keen dancer and an excellent performer on the virginals. "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, basically a ground of the form called a romanesca. A widely-believed (but completely unproven) legend is that it was composed by King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Anne, the youngest daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her. This rejection is apparently referred to in the song, when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously." It is not known if the legend is true, but the song is still commonly associated with Boleyn in the public mind. 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 <b>...</b>
Aafje Heynis sings Greensleeves
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- Duration: 2:25
- Published: 11 Jul 2008
- Uploaded: 09 Aug 2011
- Author: andigrim007
Dutch contralto Aafje Heynis sings the traditional English folk song Greensleeves "My Lady Greensleeves" as depicted in an 1864 painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti www.dutchdivas.net Lyrics: Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. And 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.
Pride&Prejudice-; Greensleeves
Irish Celtic Harp-Greensleeves by Vanessa Mae Interpreted through images and video THIS VIDEO IS PURELY FAN-MADE AND IS IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUSICAL ARTIST, MOVIE, ACTORS OR ANIME COMPANY IN ANY WAY.
Greensleeves (classical guitar)
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- Duration: 1:03
- Published: 26 May 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Sep 2011
- Author: corinneiscool
This is from a request, i love this song, it's simple and sounds really cool and it's fun!:)Thank you for all of the comments, it has been quite hard to try and keep up with answering my mail all the time and replying to comments so i'd just like so say thank you here:) I read them everyday.
Gregorian - Greensleeves
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- Duration: 5:20
- Published: 23 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Sep 2011
- Author: brennobastos
Letra: Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. For I have loved you for so 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. chorus 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. chorus 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. chorus 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. chorus 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. chorus
Brothers Four - Green Sleeves
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- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 26 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 03 Sep 2011
- Author: asderathos
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GREENSLEEVES THE JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET 1961 analogueLP
GREENSLEEVES AFRICA/BRASS THE JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET JOHN COLTRANE s.saxes McCOY TYNER piano JIMMY GARRISON bass ELVIN JONES drums ERIC DOLPHY flute...etc. analogueLP 30cm33rpm IMPULSE May 23,1961 Photo.: July 2010,by me in Japan John Coltrane - The Official Site www.johncoltrane.com
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Greensleeves
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Transcription of the lyrics from A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584)
Transcription of the sheet music from the version inWilliam Ballet's Lute Book (c. 1580)
Andrew Kuntz, The Fiddler's Companion: see under Greensleeves [2]
Антология одной песни: Greensleeves или "Девушка из харчевни"
"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.
A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as "A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves."
The tune is found in several late 16th century and early 17th century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Cambridge University libraries.
Henry VIII
There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously". However, Henry more than likely 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.
Lyrical interpretation
One possible interpretation of the lyrics is that Lady Green Sleeves was a promiscuous young woman and perhaps a prostitute. At the time, the word "green" had sexual connotations, most notably in the phrase "a green gown", a reference to the way that grass stains might be seen on a woman's dress if she had engaged in sexual intercourse out-of-doors.An alternative explanation is that Lady Green Sleeves was, through her costume, incorrectly assumed to be immoral. Her "discourteous" rejection of the singer's advances supports the contention that she is not. he explains that "green [for Chaucer’s age] was the colour of lightness in love. This is echoed in 'Greensleeves is my delight' and elsewhere."
Alternative lyrics
"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix, set to the "Greensleeves" tune.A variation was used extensively in the 1962 film How the West Was Won as the song "Home in the Meadow", lyrics by Sammy Cahn, performed by Debbie Reynolds.
Early literary references
In Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, written around 1602, the character Mistress Ford refers twice without any explanation to the tune of "Greensleeves" and Falstaff later exclaims: :Let the sky rain potatoes! Let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'!These allusions indicate that the song was already well known at that time.
Media
The earliest known source of the tune (Trinity College, Dublin ms. D. I. 21, c. 1580 - known as "William Ballet's lute book") gives the tune in the melodic minor scale. "Greensleeves" is also often played in a natural minor scale and sometimes in the Dorian mode.
Other uses
Act 2 Scene 1 of Ferruccio Busoni's opera Turandot opens with the tune.Gustav Holst's Second Suite in F for Military Band incorporates the tune in its final movement.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed an orchestral piece in 1934 entitled Fantasia on "Greensleeves".
Jacques Brel's well-known song "Amsterdam" is a modified version of the tune.
Steve Lukather covered the song in his Santamental album.
Leonard Cohen's song "Leaving Greensleeves" (1974) is another modified version of the tune.
Vanessa Carlton covered the song for Christmas time.
Loreena McKennitt also covered the song for her album The Visit (1991).
Saxophonist John Coltrane performed a jazz arrangement of "Greensleeves" on his album Africa/Brass.
The song is often played by ice cream vans to capture attention.
References
External links
Category:English folk songs Category:16th-century songs Category:Hymn tunes
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