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05 Jul 00 - 02:21 AM (#252032) Subject: Parody of Greensleeves From: PoohBear I'm looking for lyrics to what I think is an SCA filk of Greensleeves. What I know the the lyrics follows: Alas, my love, you've done me dirt You've sewn green sleeves on my purple shirt And then you did the worst of all, You made me go out and wear it. Does anyone have the rest of this? Cheers! PoohBear |
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05 Jul 00 - 02:31 AM (#252035) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Pene Azul The lyrics are on this page (click). PA |
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05 Jul 00 - 03:33 AM (#252051) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Joe Offer There was one that went: Green stamps were all she gave...not that one, huh? -Joe Offer- |
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05 Jul 00 - 06:11 AM (#252076) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: gatyamgal Joe, I remember the Green Stamp one. Is there full lyrics to that someplace? thanks |
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05 Jul 00 - 11:05 AM (#252167) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: L R Mole Verse to that one went"I found my love in a grocery shop/Selling eggplant and pickles and bottles of pop/She offered me some asparagus tips/And I fell for the smile on her ruby red lips." Also, in the third line of the chorus "I saved" substitutes for "she gave".I remember this by the Brothers Four of the Lettermen or someone like that, probably making fun of folkies (remember "The Smothers Brothers: Think Ethnic!"? |
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06 Jul 00 - 05:04 AM (#252755) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Joe Offer Sorry, Gatyam Gal - last time I heard that song was in 1966, and I have to say I was paying more attention to how gorgeous the young women were who were singing the song. -Joe Offer- Ah, but the Web doesn't get distracted by such things. Here's what I found in a Web search: GREENSTAMPS Hey! that looks like the Digital Tradition. Guess I should have searched there, instead of the Web. -Joe Offer- |
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06 Jul 00 - 06:07 AM (#252759) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: JennieG There is another parody of Greensleeves that I would like to get the words to - it starts off: My Granny died and in her will........... it then goes on to list what was left in the will and ends with the words: And a little machine that played Greensleeves. It refers to the ice-cream vans that drive around playing Greensleeves to attract customers! Cheers JennieG |
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06 Jul 00 - 11:10 AM (#252868) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Morticia Pene.....loved that link, great songs.....who are the SCA though? |
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06 Jul 00 - 11:24 AM (#252878) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Pene Azul Morticia, According to this page (click) it stands for Society for Creative Anachronism. They have some .zipped info pages on that page. I only found them by searching for your lyrics. They do have some cool songs there. In case you don't have one, you can get a free unzipper here (click). PA |
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13 Jul 00 - 12:58 PM (#257155) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: GUEST,Kingst Street Smith As I awoke one Sunday morn, just about the break of dawn, I got up and got out of bed, with a terrible urge to paint the shed, I would paint it with green creosote, so I put on my old overcoat, Climbed the ladder, then tripped and fell, And thats how my jacket got Greensleeves... (We used to sing this as children in Birmingham, England, in the '50's - for all I know they still do.) |
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13 Jul 00 - 06:42 PM (#257328) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Lanfranc Or the old "1812" version:
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13 Jul 00 - 07:54 PM (#257354) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Susan of DT Advanced search technique: Since all of the parodies have the same tune, you can search for the tunefile name. 1) Search for Greensleeves. 2) Go to a standard looking version of the song. 3) Look at the bottom of the listing for the tunefile name, in this case GRNSLVS (yes, it is DOS, with an 8 letter limit) 4) Search for *GRNSLVS. You need the * in front of (never mind why, but you do for tunes) Happy hunting |
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14 Jul 00 - 12:30 AM (#257461) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Mark Cohen Nobody's mentioned the honorable Allan Sherman. I learned Sir Greenbaum from his album "My Son the Folksinger" when I was about nine, long before I ever knew the original. I sang it for my Cub Scout pack once, but they didn't get it. So it goes. (At least it's in the DT. That's vindication of a sort.) Aloha, Mark |
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24 Jul 00 - 12:04 AM (#263314) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: PoohBear Hi Pene! thanks for the lead on Greensleeves lyrics. that pagan site is great... Morticia, the SCA is a medieval research and recreation society that started 20+ years ago. the biggest event is Pennsic War - loser keeps Pittsburgh! I've been out of it for a while due to lack of interest from my other half but they are, in general, a wonderful group of people scattered across the world. If you have a chance to attend an event, take it! I think you'd enjoy yourself. Cheers! PoohBear |
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24 Jul 00 - 05:00 PM (#263804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Liz the Squeak There was a version of the 'what child is this' words - something on the lines of
What child is this that screams so loud, Wish I could find the rest of it..... LTS |
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08 Apr 03 - 05:57 AM (#928520) Subject: Lyr Add: Parody of Greensleeves (Ice Cream Song) From: Nigel Parsons Similar to the version requested by JennieG: GREENSLEEVES (The Ice Cream Song) (Author unknown) Alas good folk you do me wrong To show such animosity, You ate my food now despise my song — The beautiful evergreen Greensleeves. Sweet and pure was the tune I played As I passed each road, with my ice cream load, That noise I made was my mark of trade I was known by the tune of Greensleeves. The housewife cheered when I first appeared And she went no more to the corner store Now angry cries stop my enterprise And my little machine that plays Greensleeves. A year ago there was wild acclaim And the children ran to my ice-cream van But the Beatles came and, I fell from fame With my 16th century Greensleeves. At last the 'News' aired the people's views Ice cream shops swear I played unfair, With much debate councils sealed my fate Put an end to my playing of Greensleeves. With a bit of luck I can sell each truck And a rival team buys unused ice cream But it's really hell when you're trying to sell One hundred machines that play Greensleeves. Notes: To the obvious tune; this version was copied from the 'Bangor Song Book', produced by the Scout & Guide club of the University college of North Wales (published 1970) NP |
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08 Apr 03 - 10:38 AM (#928658) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: JennyO Jennie G, that song you seek is called "Creamsleeves". I found it on the Dave Alexander "Singer at Large" CD. It was written by that ubiquitous writer known as Anon. I know the words. I sometimes annoy people in singing sessions by singing it. If you like, I will annoy you too and sing it at one of the singing sessions at the National. I'll write the words down for you too if you want them. See you there, Jenny. |
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08 Apr 03 - 01:30 PM (#928778) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: John MacKenzie There was a parody which is about two prostitutes, one lovely, and one plum ugly. The gruesome one was cheaper, and gave Green Shield stamps, so the singer patronises the bargain bonk, and then the last verse ends:- Green Stamps were all she gave Green stamps were all I saved I took her green stamps every one And cashed them all in with the pretty one. Slainthe Giok |
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08 Apr 03 - 08:07 PM (#929102) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: katriana The song that PoohBear was looking for was originally known as Grinsleeves and was written by Telbyrne Morningstar from Ansteorra (roughly Oklahoma & Texas) katriana |
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08 Apr 03 - 09:34 PM (#929140) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Chip2447 While not quite a paradoy of Greensleeves, this song starts off as a semi traditional version of it, and rapidly puts an entirely different spin on things. Shakespeare blues Chip2447 |
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08 Apr 03 - 11:54 PM (#929196) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: dick greenhaus While they're not strictly speaking parodies, there were a raft of songs written to that tune (often called "Which Nobody Can Deny". One of my favorites (from the Beggar's Opera is: Tho' laws were made for every degree To curb vice in others as well as me I woner I haven't better company On Tyburn tree. But gold from law can take out the sting And if rich men, like me, were to swing 'Twould thin the lland such numbers to string On Tyburn tree. |
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09 Apr 03 - 06:17 AM (#929340) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: JennieG Thanks Jenny! I'll take you up on that offer of writing down the words. I do enjoy a good parody, some of those are so gross that they are wonderful aren't they? Cheers JennieG |
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09 Apr 03 - 09:53 AM (#929498) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Sandra in Sydney Jennie & Jenny Margaret or Jenny (JennyL that is) would have the words - Jenny typed up all of Dave's songs. I'll e-mail one of 'em & see if I can get hold of the words for distribution & posting sandra |
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10 Apr 03 - 11:23 AM (#930456) Subject: Lyr Add: CREAMSLEEVES (parody of GREENSLEEVES) From: Sandra in Sydney As sung by the late & great Dave Alexander of Sydney - a mountain of a man "who will be remembered wherever songs are sung in unaccompanied chorus & harmony" The CD was compiled from recordings made in many places & times. The liner notes of his memorial CD (put together by his friends from a mess of papers he left) says author is Anon. "1962 in a coffee shop in Newtown - ah memories - The New World Trio (from a reccording Dave made of his "lighter" songs in 1997 for Anthony Woolcott)" .............................. Creamsleeves - Oh Grandma died and in her will She left me her love and her doctor's bill A full set of notes on the use of the Pill And a little machine that played Greensleeves. I had an idea and quick as a wink I bought an old van and I painted it pink With a freezer that came from an ice-skating rink And it only worked when I played Greensleeves. My product was good, soon I owned a fleet My vans went tinkling down every street The jingle of money was oh so sweet I'll bet the Pied Piper played Greensleeves. Greensleeves when the roosters crow The grocer's body swings to and fro He was condemned, he had to go For throttling a man who sang Greensleeves. Last week they shot my best ice-cream man Today they blew up my nineteenth van For the shopkeepers formed their own Klu Klux Klan And the robes that they wear all have Greensleeves. Then the army came and they took all my vans To send to the jungles of Vietnam Australia's the envy of Uncle Sam 'Cause the Yanks don't have tanks that play Greensleeves. But the army's got problems I'm telling you They can sell pink tanks when the war is through But what the hell will they ever do With a million machines that play Greensleeves? |
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11 Apr 03 - 06:14 AM (#930987) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Nigel Parsons The immediately preceeding parody (which claims to date from a coffee shop in 1962) seems to have a similar basis to the one I quoted above, which was certainly in print by 1970 (also anon.) However, that coffee shop claim may be spurious as the mention of Vietnam makes the date appear questionable. "Nov 14-16 1965: First major military engagement between U.S. & N.Vietnam troops" (from This site.) It seem that 1962 is to early to consider Vietnam a 'topical' reference. Anyone with further details ? Nigel |
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13 Apr 03 - 09:31 AM (#932331) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Sandra in Sydney Nigel, I'll check among Dave's friends to see if anyone knows more. The file Jenny sent me gave a date of "1965?" And Australia didn't enter the war same day the US did. sandra |
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10 Aug 03 - 04:31 AM (#999588) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: rich-joy just found this thread ... My c.1965 LP copy of "The Twiliters in Concert" (RCA Camden 117) has this song on it (the only version I ever knew) and it is credited to : "Maguire, Ferris and White", i.e. The Twiliters!! Other songs are labelled "ARR. maguire, ferris and white", so I have no reason to doubt this info - well, that and the fact that they are West Aussie boys!!! (yes, my birthplace!!) They were around in the early 60s, very entertaining, popular also in Sydney and made two albums (that I know of - and both of which I have) and their names were : Jim Maguire (think he may be a psychologist or something now), Greg Ferris (deceased) and Kerry White (not sure about him). Hans Stampfer was an earlier original member too, when my eldest Bro in Perth knew them in the late 50s/early 60s, probably hanging out in a "Coffee Lounge" called "The Quitapena?" ... Murray Jennings - the WA folkie / ABC announcer / and bloke wot writ the sleeve notes - would be able to clear up any confusion - if anyone knew where he was!!?? Cheers! R-J |
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10 Aug 03 - 04:38 AM (#999589) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: rich-joy ALSO just found data on the thread entitled : "camp grenada origin" - from 1998 - lyrics AND provenance of "Creamsleeves" ("sorry, malcolm"!!) Cheers! R-J |
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10 Aug 03 - 05:24 AM (#999592) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: rich-joy by putting "the twiliters" into the Australian Google, I found their cached webpages for "Reflections from "Dave's Place" by Ken Bradshaw - all about the ABC-TV show in the mid 60s hosted by the Kingston Trio's Dave Guard - shame I couldn't get the photos still ... makes VERY interesting reading though, for anyone reminiscing about those earlier days of "Aussie Folk"!! Sadly though, it seems my "West Aussie boys" (see earlier post) were from Adelaide, Tasmania, and Ireland !!! - and Kerry White is also deceased ... Cheers! R-J |
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11 Aug 03 - 12:39 AM (#1000073) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Bob Bolton G'day Nigel Parsons, I'm intrigued by your dating of: "Nov 14-16 1965: First major military engagement between U.S. & N.Vietnam troops". By early 1963, Australia was conscripting her 18-year-olds (safely 3 years too young to vote). I know this well, as I was in "The Lottery" (birthdates were drawn from a barrel ... and all born on those dates conscripted) in the latter part of 1963. The nearest I can find to a reference book, here at work (The Macquarie Dictionary), has: "Vietnam War, ... a war, 1959 - 75, between the Vietcong ... and the South Vietnamese Governament ...". The suppoprt of the North Vietnamese may well have started 6 years later ... but the war didn't. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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11 Aug 03 - 12:53 AM (#1000078) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Bob Bolton G'day again, Oh ... and I should also have mentioned that by 1962 I had heard esentially the same version of the first part of the song - sung in Sydney folk clubs ... although the opening lines were more like: My grandma died, and in her will, She left her love and her grocer's bill; An old tom-cat that was always ill ... And a little machine that played Greensleeves. Unlike either version quoted, so far, I remember this as having a chorus ... something like: Greensleeves - that lovely lay; Greensleeves, played it night and day ... But this isn't accurate - and certainly not complete. As I headed south to (comparatively) chilly Tasmania a year or two later, I didn't get hear many ice cream vans over the next 5 years ... and the song had vanished by the time I returned to Sydney, in 1970. The other point I ought to have made in the previous post, is that I don't remember the Vietnam links in the first version of the song I heard - so I'm inclined to think they added themselves sometime about 1965/6. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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11 Aug 03 - 01:02 AM (#1000080) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Margret RoadKnight Rich-joy Murray Jennings - currently an announcer/music presenter on Perth radio (don't know if it's the ABC) |
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11 Aug 03 - 09:35 AM (#1000200) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Sandra in Sydney Rich-Joy - you are a marvel!! and I dunno why I never consulted Bob in April when I was looking for the origin, silly me. Isn't the folk-process wonderful? I've forwarded the thread to Jenny L. & Anthony for their info. I suppose I might as well send it to Jennie & Jenny, too. sandra |
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12 Aug 03 - 07:59 AM (#1000759) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: rich-joy Nay, it's MUDCAT that's the marvel !! It's brought all us far-flung Folkies together - what wonderful Synergy!!!! Cheers! R-J |
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14 Aug 03 - 04:09 AM (#1001729) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Hrothgar On the 11th of November 1964, the Liberal Party introduced the National Service Bill in the House of Representatives. The first call-up took place in the latter half of 1965, in which 4 200 twenty year olds were drafted. From then on, there were annual call-ups, in which 6 900 young men were drafted. Lucky me, Bob. I failed the medical. |
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14 Aug 03 - 10:09 AM (#1001875) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Bob Bolton G'day Hrothgar, Bugger me ... I think I just failed the retrospective mental! It was 20, wasn't it ... I knew, as I typed in 18, that it didn't add up - that I had left Sydney for Tasmania just after hearing I wasn't in the birthday list for 1965, when I turned 20. Quite a few of my mates were called up - and some never came back. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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14 Aug 03 - 03:18 PM (#1002135) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Nigel Parsons Bob: I still feel this may have originated in the UK, the verse: "Then the army came and they took all my vans To send to the jungles of Vietnam Australia's the envy of Uncle Sam 'Cause the Yanks don't have tanks that play Greensleeves." clearly is post American involvement in the war, and possibly not immediate. However I grew up with ice-cream vans playing "Greensleeves" as their theme tune throughout late 50's / early 60s. Nigel |
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14 Aug 03 - 03:38 PM (#1002146) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Deckman I well remember one particular night, it was a hoot at Almar Lanczos' home in Seattle. The year was 1959. (my memory is downright scary). This one gorgous young lady had been attending several hoots and she was enthralled with "Greensleeves." Night after night, hoot after hoot, she kept requesting that DON FIRTH sing Greensleeves, and nothing else! Finally, in frustration and to be be rid of her, he did Greensleeves as a TALKING BLUES! Try it, it works ... "Alas my love, you do me wrong ..." She left and we never saw her again. (And I was just working up my courage to ask her for a date!). CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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15 Aug 03 - 09:16 AM (#1002650) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Bob Bolton G'day Nigel, I can assure you that the Mr Whippy ice-cream vans on the suburban streets of Sydney were playing Greensleeves! (I did mention a 5-year respite, while I was in Tasmania and/or perched on various mountains building Hydro schemes ... but Greensleeves was inescapable in Sydney before and after that period! Regards, Bob Bolton |
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15 Aug 03 - 09:52 AM (#1002662) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Sandra in Sydney Mr Whippy vans are still around (or maybe it's their remote descendents). They're still the same colour. Unfortunately I didn't take too much notice when I saw it several months ago & I can't remember if was a Mr Whippy van, but it seemed to have the same type of ice cream. Nostalgia & a fading memory. sandra |
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19 Jan 05 - 06:57 PM (#1382684) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: Tobyjug New to Mudcat and just found this thread. The prostitutes version was sung (and also composed as far as I know) by a guy called Rick Norcross, from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, who toured England regularly in the swingin' sixties. He also did a great round with Cripple Creek, and a fugue by getting the audience to sing a couple of different songs simultaneously. What I remember of Greenstamps was: There were two ladies of ill repute, One was ugly, the other was cute. The cute one, she charged quitw a lot, But the ugly one, she gave green stamps. Green stamps were all she gave, Green stamps were all I got, Green stamps for weeks I'd save The I'd go to the cute one and cash in the lot! |
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11 Nov 08 - 07:31 AM (#2490655) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves From: GUEST,scouser Does any one remember what kids program had greensleeves as its theme tune |
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20 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM (#3057948) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh "Greensleeves and Pudding-pies; Mark my true love, where she lies; I'll be at her ere she rise, My fiddle and all together" I think this is quoted by James Boswell, mid-late eighteenth century. |
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24 Oct 12 - 05:26 PM (#3425553) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST Just wondering, Joe, if you were saying that the Brothers Four recorded Green Stamps? I couldn't find it, but there is a song called Greenfields which does not use the same tune! Cheers |
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24 Oct 12 - 05:29 PM (#3425554) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST I had Greenfields on some 60s compilation^^^ |
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24 Oct 12 - 06:18 PM (#3425570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST I also found out that the song 'A home on the meadow' is actually based on Greensleeves. Does anyone know where I could get a copy of it? Or was is only sung by Debbie Reynolds in a film? How the West Was Won? |
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24 Oct 12 - 06:19 PM (#3425571) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST There might have been other songs written to well known tunes by Sammy Cahn as well! |
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25 Oct 12 - 03:53 PM (#3426024) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST,Seonaid Not sure whther htis counts as a parody, but... You can sing the words of "Jabberwocky" to the tune of "Greensleeves"! :o) |
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25 Oct 12 - 03:54 PM (#3426025) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST,Seonaid (Sorry, my fingers can't spell today...) |
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19 Feb 18 - 10:09 AM (#3906686) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Nigel Parsons A little late to add it here, but: Green Fees - A Golfer's Lament and: Football |
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21 Feb 18 - 05:15 AM (#3906868) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Ged Fox Greensleeves is a boring song, Greensleeves goes on and on, on and on and on and on and on and on and on and ... |
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21 Feb 18 - 06:19 AM (#3906885) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Nigel Parsons Adjusting previous post: Greensleeves is a boring song, Gree-eenslee-eeves goes on and on, and on and on and on and on And that's why no one here will sing Greensleeves. |
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19 Apr 21 - 11:38 AM (#4102707) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Greum The Green Stamps song runs I found my love in a grocery shop, Selling pickles and egg-plants and bottles of pop; She asked me to try her asparagus tips, And I fell for the smile on her ruby red lips. Chorus: Green stamps were all she gave, Green stamps were all I took, Green stamps were all I saved, So I pasted them all in my green stamp book. I'd go every day just to gaze at her face, And in no time at all I had bought out the place. Though ne'er did I e'er taste her ruby red lips, I own four thousand cans of asparagus tips. Whenever I'm lonely or tired or blue, I go to my bookshelf and here's what I do: I reach for that book and then with loving care, I count every green stamp that's pasted in there. |
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19 Apr 21 - 07:02 PM (#4102744) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Matthew Edwards Cameron’s Lament (Greensleeves parody) Alas! The press has done me wrong, And treated me discourteously, Greensill should have made me rich, I had shares in the company. Chorus Greensill was all my joy, Greensill was my delight, Greensill was my purse of gold, And who’d make me rich but Greensill? In my shepherd’s hut I dreamed of wealth, I lobbied for contracts extensively, The Chancellor and Minister of Health, Sunak and Hancock listened to me. Alas! My dreams were all in vain, Now Greensill lies in bankruptcy, I’ve reflected on my conduct again, And I’m sure I acted honestly. I’ve kept my silence for so long, I hope you won’t think ill of me, I’m sure I never have done wrong I acted for chumocracy. Matthew Edwards 13 April 2021 The Greensill references are to a British political affair involving the former UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, who lobbied ministers on behalf of Greensill Bank which has gone bankrupt. Greensill Lobbying Scandal |
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20 Apr 21 - 05:59 AM (#4102779) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Greum Nice one Matthew! |
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30 Jan 23 - 05:28 PM (#4163992) Subject: ADD: Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal (Allan Sherman) From: Joe Offer Thread #110378 Message #4148393 Posted By: Joe Offer 25-Jul-22 - 08:50 PM Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs (parodies) by Allan Sherman Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs (parodies) by Allan Sherman
SIR GREENBAUM'S MATRIGAL |
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04 Feb 23 - 09:30 AM (#4164404) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Mrrzy Then there was that Weavers concert where they mocked Greensleeves ("all 40 verses!" said Pete Seeger) throughout, so sometimes, when you hear a Weavers tune, there seems to be some random reference to Greensleeves... |
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19 Aug 23 - 10:38 AM (#4179477) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST,Malcolm I remember lines from two verses, probably from different versions but appear in some of the above versions. Woke up this morning Got out of bed With an urge to paint the garden shed Fell off the ladder and onto my head And now my jacket has green sleeves And My true love works in a village shop Selling lettuce and bottles of pop I bought half a pound of asparagus tips And fell for the smile on her ruby fed lips Greenstamps was all she offered and green stamps was all I took So I took my green stamps home with me To fill all the pages in my Greenstamps book |
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24 Aug 23 - 12:39 AM (#4179771) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: PHJim Alas my love, you have done me dirt You have sewed green sleeves on my yellow shirt. |
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23 Jan 24 - 05:58 PM (#4196023) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST,Brian I turned 20 in 1953 and missed out on the first birthday lottery for Vietnam. |
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29 Jan 24 - 10:20 PM (#4196369) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Neil D I met a girl who said to me You can't be in love and still be free I said to well I would not know And come morning I must go |
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30 Jan 24 - 05:01 AM (#4196386) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: GUEST,Jerry The thing with parodies is you really need to follow the same scansion and rhyming pattern of the original. Most of those in this thread try to squeeze alternative words in standard four four rhythm into the distinctive Greensleeves three four timing. Similarly, the rhymes in the verses should not be straight single syllable rhymes (usually referred to as male), but rather extended three syllable rhymes, and at the very least alternating rather than closely paired, like this: Alas, my love, but you…… do me wrong, To cast me off so dis…….courteously; No English rogue, but I’m…….truly Scots, That’s why I wear this old…….skirt, you see. OK, the third line doesn’t cleanly rhyme (with line one), but it’s the first of the three syllables that most need to rhyme. I don’t why people say I’m pedantic… |
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30 Jan 24 - 10:28 AM (#4196398) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies From: Steve Gardham What a marvellous thread! A wonderful collection of folklore, ready made. I sing a song to the Greensleeves tune from the 16th century but it wouldn't count as a parody, it just utilises the tune. The original by Wm Elderton actually designates the tune, but you would know it was Greensleeves by the format anyway. |