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==Origin==
A [[Broadside (music)|broadside ballad]] by this name was registered at the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|London Stationer's Company]] in September 1580,<ref name="fkids"/> by Richard Jones, as "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves".<ref name="Ward181" /> Six more ballads followed in less than a year, one on the same day, 3 September 1580 ("Ye Ladie Greene Sleeves answere to Donkyn hir frende" by Edward White), then on 15 and 18 September (by Henry Carr and again by White), 14 December (Richard Jones again), 13 February 1581 (Wiliam Elderton), and August 1581 (White's third contribution, "Greene Sleeves is worne awaie, Yellow Sleeves Comme to decaie, Blacke Sleeves I holde in despite, But White Sleeves is my delighte").<ref name="Rollins">[[Hyder Edward Rollins]], ''[https://archive.org/details/analyticalindext0000stat/ An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries (1557–1709) in the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London]'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1924): nos, 1892, 1390, 1051, 1049, 1742, 2276, 1050. Cited in John M. Ward, "'And Who But Ladie Greensleeues?'", in ''The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry, and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of F. W. Sternfeld'', edited by John Caldwell, Edward Olleson, and Susan Wollenberg, 181–211 (Oxford:Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990): 181–82. {{ISBN|0-19-316124-9}}.</ref> 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''.
It is a common myth that Greensleeves was written by [[Henry VIII
==Lyrical interpretation==
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==Form==
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"Greensleeves" can have a [[Ostinato#Ground bass|ground]] either of the form called a ''[[romanesca]]''; or its slight variant, the ''[[passamezzo antico]]''; or the ''passamezzo antico'' in its verses and the ''romanesca'' in its reprise; or of the [[Andalusian progression]] in its verses and the ''romanesca'' or ''passamezzo antico'' in its reprise. The romanesca originated in Spain<ref name="Guitar">Harvey Turnbull, ''The Guitar from the Renaissance to the Present'' (1992){{Full citation needed|date=October 2014}}, p.31. {{ISBN|0-933224-57-5}}. See: {{cite web|title=
==Uses==
{{ external media|width=270px|audio1=You may hear [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]' '"Fantasia on Greensleeves" performed by [[Leopold Stokowski]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]] in 1949 [https://archive.org/details/mm-838-vaughan-williams-6/MM838+Vaughan+Williams+Greensleeves.flac '''Here on Archive.org''']}}
* The tune was used (as "My Lady Greensleeves") as the slow march of the London [[Trained Bands]] in the 16th and 17th centuries. Later the [[7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment]], which claimed descent from the Yellow Regiment of London Trained Bands, adopted the tune as its quick march during [[World War I]], replacing "Austria" (to the same tune as
* Greensleeves is the tune for the classic Christmas carol [[What Child Is This?]].<ref name=stories>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Bsl0P2Z8K4C&pg=PA47|title=Stories of the Great Christmas Carols|publisher=Alfred Music Publishing|pages=47–48|isbn=978-1-4574-1934-8}}</ref>
* The 17th century English ballad, ''Old England Grown New'' is a version of "Greensleeves", also sometimes known as 'The Blacksmith' after another broadside ballad of the time.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England |url=https://www.naxos.com/sharedfiles/PDF/8.557672_sungtext.pdf |access-date=7 May 2022 |website=naxos.com |page=5}}</ref>
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] incorporated ''Greensleeves'' as the song ''Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong'' for Mistress Ford in Act III of his 1928 opera ''[[Sir John in Love]]''. Its contrasting middle section is founded on another folk tune: ''[[Lovely Joan]]''. In 1934 the song was arranged for strings and harp, with Vaughan Williams's blessing, by Ralph Greaves (1889–1966); this is the familiar ''Fantasia on Greensleeves''.<ref>Ralph Vaughan Williams, ''Fantasia on Greensleeves'', arranged from the opera ''Sir John in Love'' for string orchestra and harp (or pianoforte) with one or two optional flutes by Ralph Greaves, Oxford Orchestral Series no. 102 (London: Oxford University Press, 1934).</ref><ref>Hugh Ottaway and Alain Frogley, "Vaughan Williams, Ralph", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (professor of music)|John Tyrrell]] (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).</ref><ref>Michael Kennedy, "Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'", ''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'', second edition, revised; associate editor, Joyce Bourne (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) {{ISBN|978-0-19-861459-3}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Halle Orchestra Conducted By John Barbirolli – Fantasia On "Greensleeves"/ Londonderry Air |url=https://www.discogs.com/Halle-Orchestra-The-Conducted-By-John-Barbirolli-Fantasia-On-Greensleeves-Londonderry-Air/release/3801228 |access-date=17 May 2018 |publisher=discogs}}</ref>
* [[Gustav Holst]] incorporated the tune into the final movement of his [[Second Suite in F for Military Band]], interwoven with the primary theme, "Dargason".<ref>{{cite web |title=Second Suite In F For Military Band - 4. Fantasia |url=https://www.jwpepper.com/Second-Suite-In-F-For-Military-Band---4.-Fantasia-On-The-Dargason/10532338.item |website=J.W. Pepper Sheet Music| access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref> He later adapted the movement for strings, still using both folk tunes, in his [[St Paul's Suite]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/holst/stpaul.php |title=St. Paul Suite Op. 29 #2 |last=Erb |first=Jane |website=Classical Net |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>
* The tune was the basis for "Home in the Meadow
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* Belgian singer [[Jacques Brel]] used the tune for the basis of his 1964 song [[Amsterdam (Jacques Brel song)|Amsterdam]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doggett |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KC5yOXoyXioC&dq=amsterdam+brel+greensleeves&pg=PA77 |title=The Man who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s |date=2011 |publisher=Bodley Head |isbn=978-1-84792-145-1 |page=77 |language=en}}</ref>
* Instrumental versions of "Greensleeves" were used in the long-running original ''[[Lassie (1954 TV series)|Lassie]]'' television series, both in a seven-part 1966 story<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lassieweb.org |url=http://episodes.lassieweb.org/lassie13.htm}}</ref> and as the show's theme song for its last three seasons (1970–73).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lassieweb.org |url=https://www.episodes.lassieweb.org/lasstitl.htm |website=}}</ref>
* Canadian singer-songwriter [[Leonard Cohen]] includes an adaptation of the song, titled "Leaving Green Sleeves" in his 1974 album [[New Skin for the Old Ceremony]], in which the chord progression and lyrical content of the first two verses are retained.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Skin For The Old Ceremony |url=https://www.leonardcohen.com/music/new-skin-for-the-old-ceremony |website=discogs |access-date=22 September 2024}}</ref>
* The melody of "Greensleeves" is used repeatedly as a motif in [[Six (musical)|SIX]], a musical about the [[wives of Henry VIII]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Jesse |date=3 October 2021 |title=Review: In 'Six,' All the Tudor Ladies Got Talent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/theater/six-review-broadway.html |access-date=14 September 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* In Hong Kong, "Greensleeves" is used as background music in [[Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education]] public listening exams.<ref name="hong kong">{{cite news |author=Eunice Lam |title=Dismay as Chinese listening exam set to pass into history |url=https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/11/251931/Dismay-as-Chinese-listening-exam-set-to-pass-into-history|date=26 Apr 2023}}</ref><ref name="Autistic Hong Kong teen">{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Fung |title=Autistic Hong Kong teen on his love for trains, becoming an internet sensation, and dangers of doxxing |url=https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3140555/hong-kong-teen-writes-viral-song-greensleeves-tune-mtrs |access-date=30 November 2023 |work=SCMP Young Post |date=11 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607035000/https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3140555/hong-kong-teen-writes-viral-song-greensleeves-tune-mtrs |archive-date=7 June 2023}}</ref>
* Upon the opening of the [[MTR]] [[Tuen Ma line]] (through a merger of [[West Rail line]] and [[Ma On Shan line]] at that time) in 2021, a viral video of a young rail enthusiast singing the lyrics
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