LyricMeaning

Greensleeves
Helen Merrill

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.

[Chorus]


  Purchase "Greensleeves"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Greensleeves" Video   Play Spotify "Greensleeves" Song   View Wikipedia "Greensleeves" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Helen Merrill Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Greensleeves"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Helen Merrill

  After You, Who?   All of You [Instrumental]   Am I Blue   Am I Blue?   Among My Souvenirs   Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home   Anything Goes   Anything Goes [*]   Autumn in New York   Autumn in Rome   Autumn Leaves   Away in a Manger   Beautiful Love   Beautiful Love [*]   Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered   Black Coffee   Black Is the Color   Blue Skies   Bossa Nouveau [Instrumental]   Boy on a Dolphin   But Not for Me   By Myself   Bye Bye Blackbird   Careless Love   Cold, Cold Heart   Coventry Carol   Danny Boy   Days of Wine and Roses   Dearly Beloved   Devoted to You   Donna Donna   Easy Come Easy Go   Easy Come, Easy Go   End of a Love Affair   Falling in Love With Love   Falling in Love with Love ?????   Forbidden Games   Getting to Know You   Glad to Be Unhappy   Good Morning Heartache   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   Hello, Young Lovers   House of the Rising Sun   How Deep Is the Ocean?   I Feel Pretty   I Get a Kick Out of You   I Have Dreamed   I Love Paris   I Remember You   I See Your Face Before Me   I Will Wait for You   If I Fell   If I Loved You   If I Were a Bell   If Love Were All   If Love Were All   If Love Were All [Alternate Take]   If You Go   In Love in Vain   In My Life   It Might as Well Be Spring   Just Friends   Just Imagine   Just You, Just Me   Just You, Just Me [*]   Lady Madonna   Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!   Let Me Love You   Lilac Wine   Lilac Wine [*]   Lover Come Back to Me   Mack the Knife   Mad About the Boy   Memories of You   Milestones [Instrumental]   More I See You   My Favorite Things   Nearness of You   No Other Love   Nobody Else But Me   Nobody Knows   Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)   O Christmas Tree   Out of This World   Poor Butterfly   Remind Me   September in the Rain   Silent Night   Snowfall   Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise   Someday My Prince Will Come   Someone to Watch Over Me   Something I Dreamed Last Night   Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most   Summertime   Teach Me Tonight   The Christmas Song   The End of a Love Affair   The End of a Love Affair [*]   The Folks Who Live on the Hill   The Last Rose of Summer   The Masquerade Is Over   The Masquerade Is Over [*]   The More I See You   The Nearness of You   The Sound of Music   The Things We Did Last Summer   The Third Man Theme   The Thrill Is Gone   Three Coins in the Fountain   Too Marvelous for Words   Two Sleepy People   What Is This Thing Called Love?   When I Fall in Love   When I Fall in Love [*]   When I Grow Too Old to Dream   When the World Was Young   Where Flamingos Fly

Related Songs

  Greensleeves - Mannheim Steamroller  Greensleeves - Nolwenn Leroy  Greensleeves - Olivia Newton-John  Lady Greensleeves - The Brothers Four  Greensleeves - Perry Como  Greensleeves - Helmut Lotti  Greensleeves - Loreena McKennitt  Greensleeves (What Child Is This?) - Kenny G  Greensleeves - Anúna  Greensleeves - Odetta  Greensleeves - Marianne Faithfull  Greensleeves [*] - Marianne Faithfull  Greensleeves - Blackmore's Night  Greensleeves - Ritchie Blackmore  Greensleeves - Blackmores Night  Greensleeves - Ray Price  Greensleeves - Unknown  Greensleeves - The Kelly Family  Greensleeves - Kelly Family  Greensleeves - Bee Gees  Greensleeves - Kate Smith  Greensleeves - Ray Bryant  Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)...  Greensleeves - Jo Jones  Greensleeves - Julie Andrews  Greensleeves - Peggy Lee  Greensleeves - Joe Maphis  Greensleeves - Gloria Lynne  Greensleeves - Billy Vaughn  Greensleeves - Mel Tormé  Greensleeves - Rod Stewart  16th Century Greensleeves - Rainbow  Greensleeves - Jeff Beck  Greensleeves - Roger Whittaker  Greensleeves - The Chelsea Strings  Greensleeves - Vince Guaraldi  Greensleeves - Vanessa Carlton  Greensleeves...  Greensleeves - Lynyrd Skynyrd  Greensleeves - Charlotte Church  Sixteenth Century Greensleeves - Rainbow  Greensleeves [Instrumental] - Tim Heintz  Greensleeves [Instrumental] - The Weavers  Track Comments To the Visit - Loreena McKennitt  Track Comments To 'the Visit'...  Track Comments To 'the Visit' - Loreena Mckennitt  Death By Information - Xanthe Littlemore  Sixteenth Century Greensleeves...  Sixteenth Century Greensleeves - Catch the Rainbow  Silent Night/Greensleeves - Susan Egan  Winter Stars (Greensleeves) - A Hero for the World  DEVIL'S SIDEWALK - Neil Young  Barroom Hitz - ApologetiX  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)...  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) - Andy Williams  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)...  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)...  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)...  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)...  What Child Is This (Greensleeves)...  The Bells of Christmas (Greensleeves)...  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) - Andy Williams  What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)...
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.