Greensleeves
(source: "Girl Guide Songbook, Vol. 1", Girl Guides Association,
1984.)
- Alas, my love, you do me wrong
- To cast me off discourteously,
- And I have lovéd 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.
- I have been ready at your hand
- To grant whatever you would crave.
- I have both wagéd life and land,
- Your love and goodwill for to have.
I bought thee petticoats of the best,
- The cloth so fine as might be.
- I gave thee jewels for thy chest,
- And all this cost I spent on thee.