Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Greensleeves Message-ID: <272@scc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 14:31:03 EST Article-I.D.: scc.272 Posted: Wed Dec 5 14:31:03 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:47:21 EST References: <51000002@csd2.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 25 > > would anyone happen to know some of the other lyrics of > Greensleeves? > There is an amusing dialogue on a Weavers record (the weavers at Carnagy Hall) where Lee asks Pete Seger, "what are the lyrics to that song, anyway?" Pete repiles: I looked it up once in Francis James Child's collection of English Ballads. It has dozens of verses each one dumber that the last: "I gave her this I gave her that but still she wouldst not love me ... Greensleeves ..." (here he takes off into some hot banjo picking). -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/