{"id":688,"date":"2021-01-27T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragonslaire.antir.org\/wordpress\/?p=688"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:05:21","slug":"greensleeves-on-mandolin-with-sung-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonslaire.antir.org\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/27\/greensleeves-on-mandolin-with-sung-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Greensleeves on Mandolin with sung lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>by Ysaunaa of Dragon\u2019s Laire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Greensleeves&quot; on Mandolin\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mupCdo6ziT8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">We all know of or have heard the glorious song Greensleeves, but does anyone really know who wrote Greensleeves or who it was written for.&nbsp;The history of&nbsp;Greensleeves&nbsp;is a&nbsp;complex one full of mystery and myth&nbsp;but I shall only talk about two of them today.&nbsp;Who wrote Greensleeves you ask?&nbsp;Well,&nbsp;that is one of the biggest mysteries that&nbsp;revolve&nbsp;around Greensleeves.&nbsp;Most say it was&nbsp;written&nbsp;for&nbsp;Anne Boleyn by Henry viii&nbsp;but that&nbsp;can&#8217;t be true Because&nbsp;he died in the year 1547, While Greensleeves came about in the year 1580&nbsp;also if it were true there would be something connecting the song and&nbsp;Anne Boleyn&nbsp;but there is not a single thing there.&nbsp;So,&nbsp;for now, it shall&nbsp;remain&nbsp;an anonymous song in the&nbsp;sense&nbsp;of who wrote the wonderful song Greensleeves.&nbsp;Why is the song called Greensleeves? Good question.&nbsp;Well, 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 &#8220;green&#8221; had sexual connotations, most notably in the phrase &#8220;a green gown&#8221;, a reference to the grass stains on a woman&#8217;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 &#8220;discourteous&#8221; rejection of the singer&#8217;s advances supports the contention that she is not. In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevill_Coghill\">Nevill Coghill<\/a>&#8216;s translation of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Canterbury_Tales\">The Canterbury Tales<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;he explains that &#8220;green [for Chaucer\u2019s age] was the color of lightness in love. This is echoed in &#8216;Greensleeves is my delight&#8217; and elsewhere.&#8221; or it could mean, love and joy, youth, especially in the month of May, most interestingly in the secular sphere \u2026 chastity! These are just two of the mysteries of Greensleeves there will always be more to be said but this is where I stop. Hope you learned something new if not I still hope you enjoyed the performance up above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Greensleeves: Mythology, History and Music. Part 1 of 3: Mythology<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">https:\/\/earlymusicmuse.com\/greenslevees<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ysaunaa of Dragon\u2019s Laire We all know of or have heard the glorious song Greensleeves, but does anyone really know who wrote Greensleeves or who it was written for.&nbsp;The history of&nbsp;Greensleeves&nbsp;is a&nbsp;complex one full of mystery and myth&nbsp;but I shall only talk about two of them today.&nbsp;Who wrote Greensleeves you ask?&nbsp;Well,&nbsp;that is one of 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