Traditionnal (1580)
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[Verse]
Alas my love,
you do me wrong,
to cast me off discourteously,
for i have loved you 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.
[Verse 2]
I have been readie at your hand,
to grant what ever you would crave.
I have both waged life and land,
your love and good will for to have.
[Verse 3]
Thy gown was of the grassy green,
They sleeves of satin hanging by,
Which made thee be our harvest queen,
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
[Chorus]
greensleeves was all my joy,
greensleeves was my delight,
greensleeves was my heart of gold,
and who but my lady greensleeves.
[Verse 4]
Well, i will pray to God on high,
That thou constancy mayst see,
And that yet once before i die,
Thou will vouchsafe to love me.
[Outro]
Greensleeves now farewel adue,
God I pray to prosper thee:
For I am stil thy lover true,
come once againe and love me.