Greensleeves

Verse 1
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
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.

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Verse 3
If you intend thus to disdain,
It does the more enrapture me,
And even so, I still remain
Your lover in captivity.

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Verse 4
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.

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Verse 5
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.

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Verse 6
I bought the kerchiefs for thy head,
That were wrought fine and gallantly;
I kept thee both at board and bed,
Which cost my purse well favoredly.

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Verse 7
I bought thee petticoats of the best,
The cloth so fine as it might be;
I gave thee jewels for thy chest,
And all this cost I spent on thee.

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Verse 8
Thy smock of silk, both fair and white,
With gold embroidered gorgeously;
Thy petticoat of sendal right,
And these I bought thee gladly.

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Verse 9
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.

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Verse 10
They set thee up, they took thee down,
They served thee with humility;
Thy foot might not once touch the ground,
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

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Verse 11
‘Tis, 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.

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Verse 12
Alas, my love, that you should own
A heart of wanton vanity,
So must I meditate alone
Upon your insincerity.

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Verse 13
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.