Misc Traditional – Greensleeves (Guitar)

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Traditional (1580) See http://accordeonworld.weebly.com/greensleeves.html for more verses and history. [Verse 1]

 Am     C         G     Em
Alas my love, you do me wrong,

   Am              E
to cast me off discourteously.

    Am     C     G      Em
For I have loved you so long,

  Am       E7       Am
delighting in your company.

[Chorus]

C                G      Em
Greensleeves was all my joy,

Am               E
Greensleeves was my delight,

C                   G        Em
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,

    Am         E7   Am
and who but my Lady Greensleeves.

[Verse 2]

   Am       C      G       Em
I have been readie at your hand,

    Am              E
to grant what ever you would crave.

   Am        C     G       Em
I have both waged life and land,

     Am            E7          Am
your love and good will for to have.

[Verse 3]

    Am        C      G     Em
Thy gown was of the grassy green,

      Am              E
thy sleeves of satin hanging by,

      Am        C       G       Em
Which made thee be our harvest queen,

 Am           E7          Am
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

[Chorus]

C                G      Em
Greensleeves was all my joy,

Am               E
Greensleeves was my delight,

C                   G        Em
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,

    Am         E7   Am
and who but my Lady Greensleeves.

[Verse 4]

      Am     C       G      Em
Well, I will pray to God on high,

      Am            E
That thou constancy mayst see,

    Am       C      G      Em
And that yet once before I die,

 Am            E7       Am
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.

[End Chorus]

     C                G    Em
Greensleeves, now farewel adue,

Am             E
God I pray to prosper thee:

    C              G    Em
For I am stil thy lover true,

Am          E7       Am
come once againe and love me.