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Greensleves

Author

Griffin

Submitted / Updated

09-02-2002 / 09-02-2002

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Greensleves.zipGreensleves.zip Submitted: 09-02-2002 / Last Updated: 09-02-2002	zip	3.1Mb	1127
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Comments (10):

Posted by Anonymous ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2005-02-05 15:29:00

Henry VIII of England wrote this song to Lady Anne Bolyn (pronounced "Bullen") as he was courting her. She had a deformed pinkie finger and always wore long sleeves to cover it. Some say she actually had a 6th finger on one hand. Since the Tudor color is green, she wore long green sleeves - hence the name.

Posted by CVB at 2004-03-16 12:33:00

Songs published before 1923 are public domain and therefore
free for use.

It doesn't matter who wrote it, there's no copyright on
classical music and such.

Specific recordings of a classical song are not necessarily
public domain though.

Posted by Old_Scores_Transfered at 2004-02-20 10:28:32 Voted 7.00 on 02/20/04

This is a compilation of the old system into a single score. There were 5 that made this score of 7.00 then rounded to 7.

Posted by black draconian ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2004-01-20 19:33:00

To tell you who Henry VIII wrote the lyrics for, some people beleive that he wrote the lyrics for his recently met love, Anne Boleyn. But they might have been for his frist wife, Katherine of Argon.

Posted by DarkBard ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-06-30 13:46:00

Henry VIII wrote it, actually. At least, he wrote the lyrics (bet ya didn't know there were lyrics, but there are!), and I believe he had the music itself commissioned.

Henry's lyrics are about a woman, and the gifts he gives her, such as fine clothes (hence, the green sleeves in the title), etc.

Loreena McKennit, the Canadian singer who does music with a Celtic theme, did a gorgeous version (including the vocal part) of this song on one of her albums.

Posted by MusicGUY ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-03-24 14:05:00

Greensleeves was written sometime back during the 14th century. The reason why there isn't an original composer is because some parts where composed from one guy, and some from the other.Kind of hard to explain but there is a more recent example of this called "the House of the Rising Sun." I would certainly label both of these songs as Various Artists.

Posted by andrewbadger ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-03-11 07:16:00

Henry VIII wrote it. Useless piece of trivia for you!

Posted by McFly ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-01-11 06:51:00

It's a traditional. It's so old that no one knows exactly
who wrote it. And therefore, it's good for this stuff
because no one can claim ownership of it.

Posted by Rothgar ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-01-04 21:47:00

Author is unknown...does anyone actually know who wrote
and originally composed Greensleves ?

Posted by McFly ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2002-11-29 09:01:00

This is great for RPGs. And best of all, the author is
unknown, so anyone can use it.

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