Lyr Req: Greensleeves - parodies

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 14 Jul 00 - 12:30 AM

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

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Susan of DT
Date: 13 Jul 00 - 07:54 PM

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

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Lanfranc
Date: 13 Jul 00 - 06:42 PM

Or the old "1812" version:

"My darling you look a bit of a mess
When you wipe your nose on the sleeve of your dress
It's most unhygenic you must confess
It's no wonder the boys call you Greensleeves"

I once put together a set comprising every version or reference to Greensleeves I could think of. Including Leonard Cohen's version, Flanders & Swann's "And the Royalties went to Royalty" and Jacques Brel's "Port of Amsterdam". It went down quite well for a while, I might revive it sometime.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: GUEST,Kingst Street Smith
Date: 13 Jul 00 - 12:58 PM

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.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Pene Azul
Date: 06 Jul 00 - 11:24 AM

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

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Morticia
Date: 06 Jul 00 - 11:10 AM

Pene.....loved that link, great songs.....who are the SCA though?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Jul 00 - 06:07 AM

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

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jul 00 - 05:04 AM

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-

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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-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: L R Mole
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 11:05 AM

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!"?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: gatyamgal
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 06:11 AM

Joe, I remember the Green Stamp one. Is there full lyrics to that someplace? thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 03:33 AM

There was one that went:

Green stamps were all she gave
Green stamps were all I took
Green stamps were all she gave
And I pasted them all in my green stamp book.

...not that one, huh?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody of Greensleeves
From: Pene Azul
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 02:31 AM

The lyrics are on this page (click).

PA

Subject: Parody of Greensleeves
From: PoohBear
Date: 05 Jul 00 - 02:21 AM

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