Music: anonymous
Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously.
And I have loved you so long,
Delighting in your company.
Refrain
Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but Lady Greensleeves.
I have been ready at your hand
To grant whatever you would crave.
I have both waged life and land,
Your love and good will for to have.
Thou couldst desire no earthly thing
But stil thou hadst it readily.
Thy musicke still to play and sing,
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Wei, I wil pray to God on hie
That thou my constancie maist see,
And that yet once before I die,
Thou will vouchsafe to love me.
Greensleeves, now farewel, adue!
God I pray to prosper thee,
For I am stil thy lover true,
Come once againe, and love me!