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Greensleeves

*The lyrics in the video:

Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously,
Oh I have loved you so long so long,
Delighting in your company.
Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight.
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
Oh who but Lady Greensleeves?

Your vows you’ve broken, like my heart,
Oh, why did you so enrapture me?
Now I remain in a world apart,
My heart remains in captivity.
Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight.
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
Oh who but Lady Greensleeves?

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.
Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight.
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
Oh who but Lady Greensleeves?
Who but Lady Greensleeves?

*"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song. A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580, and the tune is found in several late-16th-century and early-17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Seeley Historical Library in the University of Cambridge.

Form
"Greensleeves" can have a ground either of the form called a romanesca; or its slight variant, the passamezzo antico; or the passamezzo antico in its verses and the romanescain its reprise; or of the Andalusian progression in its verses and the romanesca or passamezzo antico in its reprise. The romanesca originated in Spain and is composed of a sequence of four chords with a simple, repeating bass, which provide the groundwork for variations and improvisation.

Origin
A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580, by Richard Jones, as "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves". 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"). 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.

There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously". However, the piece is based on an Italian style of composition that did not reach England until after Henry's death, making it more likely to be Elizabethan in origin.

Lyrical interpretation
A possible interpretation of the lyrics is that Lady Green Sleeves was a promiscuous young woman, perhaps even a prostitute. At the time, the word "green" had sexual connotations, most notably in the phrase "a green gown", a reference to the grass stains on a woman's dress from engaging in sexual intercourse outdoors.
An alternative explanation is that Lady Green Sleeves was, through her costume, incorrectly assumed to be sexually promiscuous. Her "discourteous" rejection of the singer's advances supports the contention that she is not.

In Nevill Coghill's translation of The Canterbury Tales,[9] he explains that "green [for Chaucer’s age] was the colour of lightness in love. This is echoed in 'Greensleeves is my delight' and elsewhere."

Alternative lyrics
Christmas and New Year texts were associated with the tune from as early as 1686, and by the 19th century almost every printed collection of Christmas carols included some version of words and music together, most of them ending with the refrain "On Christmas Day in the morning". One of the most popular of these is "What Child Is This?", written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix.

*视频中的歌词:

Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously,
Oh I have loved you so long so long,
Delighting in your company.
Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight.
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
Oh who but Lady Greensleeves?

*翻译成简体中文：
《绿袖子》是一首传统的英国民歌。 理查德·琼斯 (Richard Jones) 于 1580 年 9 月在伦敦文具公司注册了一首名为“A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves”的宽边民谣，这首曲子出现在 16 世纪末和 17 世纪初的几个资料中 ，如芭蕾舞团的 MS Lute Book 和 Het Luitboek van Thysius，以及剑桥大学 Seeley 历史图书馆保存的各种手稿。

形式
“Greensleeves”可以有一个称为 romanesca 的形式的地面； 或其略微变体，passamezzo antico； 或 passamezzo antico 的诗句和 romanescain 的重演； 或安达卢西亚在其诗句中的进步以及在其重演中的罗马或 passamezzo antico。 romanesca 起源于西班牙，由一系列四个和弦和一个简单、重复的低音组成，为变奏和即兴创作提供了基础。

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