Song 53 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 42 in Ukulele for Beginners

Greensleeves

Also known as: A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves

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Piano

For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.

Slow (70% speed) (1:03)
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Normal speed (0:45)
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Play-along (0:45)
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For Ukulele for Beginners.

Slow (70% speed) (1:03)
Learn with this one first.

Normal speed (0:45)
The speed printed on the page.

Play-along (0:45)
Just the accompaniment, no tune: you play or sing the melody.

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 waged life and land,
Your love and good-will for to have.
Greensleeves was all my joy, &c.
I bought thee kerchers to thy head,
That were wrought fine and gallantly,
I kept thee booth at board and bed,
Which cost my purse well favoredly.
Greensleeves was all my joy, &c.
They set thee up, they took thee down,
They serv'd thee with humility;
Thy foot might not once touch the ground,
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy, &c.

Music: Traditional English (tune c. 1580; Ballet's Lute Book)
Words: Anonymous (broadside ballad registered 1580); spelling as printed by William Chappell (1809–1888)
First published: Ballad registered 1580; text printed in A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584); this form in Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859)
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.