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Posted By: masato sakurai
22-May-04 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Greensleeves tune in New Year song
Subject: RE: Greensleeves tune in New Year song
Notes to "Greensleeves" in The Oxford Book of Carols (1928, No. 28):
A Waits' carol. There are three more verses, appealing to 'Jack, Tom, Dick, Bessy, Mary, and Joan', and also to the dame of the house, rather pathetically pleading for good cheer. From New Christmas Carols, 1642 ('to the tune of Greensleeves'), in the unique black-letter collection of Antony à Wood, now in the Bodleian. We have had to alter some words for the sake of choral singing.