I love this song! My grandma used to sing this song to me when i was a baby. She bought me a jewlery music box with this lullaby. I used to play it every time i missed her.
My great-grandmother used to sing this song for me and my brother when i was very young. Now i am 16 years old, and i always cry when i play this song with my shamisen. Rest in peace, sweet Elizabeth.
So many are in awe of the beauty of this song that it is neglected that this is a song of pain also. He loved her and gave her all he could and still he lost her and she would never love him. So imo there should be some element of pain in the singing and this is not only a comforting song...its a song about love and loss...and this version has those elements of beauty and pain imo ... beautifully done
I'm from australia and can not wait to get out and see Ireland and England! It looks so beautiful, & this song & music is so amazing! Its so calming and sweet, I know this may sound weird but my dog and cat, especially my Cat, loves this song!
There is an oral tradition in Ireland that the song - or at least the lyrics as we know them today - originated in County Mayo in the second half of the sixteenth century (the first verse is an almost verbatim translation of a Gaelic ballad.)
i don't know..but i couldn't stop crying when i heard this song again for the first time since junior high..brought back so many memories..well done celtic lady bravo ! she's an angel!
+Kalifornia Sur Thank you for your lovely comment, ...This gorgeous young lady singing is our Méav Ni Mhaolchatha of Dublin, Ireland. She is truly our No.1 Irish Lady of Song and we love her dearly. You can find Meav's celticsongbird official forum on fb...feel free to join us there. She will sing for you every day. .. Sandy Harlow Administrator of Meav Celtic Songbird Official FB Forum
Kalifornia Sur Kalifornia Sur...yes, Celtic Woman is still touring together with a whole new group of beautiful singers. Méav occasionally kindly travels and sings with them. Méav is now Celtic Woman's voice director and creative consultant. Thank you so much for asking.
I'm so happy to have find the melody that we in terpreted the "Graduation Day" thanks you very much because it was .many many years ago but i still remember that song. Sincerely thanks.
this song makes me feel like my soul has been awakened from a long, deep sleep. Never do I want to sleep again, but when I feel the burden of needing rest I will just relax to this masterpiece.
@Avostal The very best of this song I have ever heard, along with such beautiful photos. I do believe Henry would be proud of his song if he could hear this. Thank you for the upload. It is now saved as a favorite.
i have always loved this song. i found out that my uncle loved this song as well, unfortunately he died before i was born. so whenever i hear this song, i feel so sad that i never met him. but i will always listen to this song forever more.
Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. And i have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. Greensleeves was all my joy Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but my lady greensleeves. Thy smock of silk, both fair and white, With gold embroidered gorgeously; Thy petticoat of sendal right, And these I bought thee gladly. Greensleeves was all my joy Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but my lady greensleeves. I bought thee kerchiefs for thy head, That were wrought fine and gallantly; I kept thee at both board and bed, Which cost my purse well-favoredly. I have been ready at your hand, To grant whatever you would crave, I have wagered both life and land, Your love and good-will for to have. Greensleeves was all my joy Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but my lady greensleeves. Ah, Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu, To God I pray to prosper thee, For I am still thy lover true, Come once again and love me.
It's an English song,it was by Henry VIII to his then Queen Anne Boleyn,check the facts before crediting a different country for an originally English love song
One can certainly picture the likes of "Robin of Sherwood", "Connor MacLeod", "Duncan MacLeod", "Guy Fawkes" or "Barry Lyndon" listening to this timeless masterpiece.
THIS IS LOVELY...MÉAV NI MHAOLCHATHA...OF IRELAND. NONE OTHER CAN SING AS BEAUTIFULLY AS OUR IRISH CELTIC SONGBIRD. LISTEN TO ALL OF HER SONGS...THEY ARE LOVELY.
After so long with Celtic Woman I can't help wishing that we could see Meav singing this outdoors on a stage with back-up singers, an orchestra and Mairead Nesbitt playing in the background. It would be awesome....
eu adorei todos em fim encontrei tudo que eu precisava nomomento me transportar desse mundo caotico que nos vivemos e nos trasportarmos para um tempo de magia obrigado por ter me dado esse praser que pouco o tem.
As a canadian teen with family ties to England and Ireland, I feel proud when music like this is posted on RUclips. It is more respectible, not to mention beautiful, in my opinion than what is posted on this site in recent years.
Celtic Woman does not do "Greensleeves", Sapphire848. This is Méav as she sings from her beautiful solo cd "Meav: A Celtic Journey". I believe that CW helped promote Méav's album and therefore, many think that it is a CW song. It's only Méav's song. And...believe me, only Méav could sing this gorgeous old ballad the way it should be sung....and she surely has on her solo album. Méav's soothing, calming, comforting, perfectly pitched, angelic voice is truly lovely as she sings her songs...all of them...especially "Greensleeves" and "What Child is This"..the same melody..which Méav sang in the CW concert "Home for Christmas". ... Sandy Harlow Admin of Méav's Celtic Songbird Official FB Forum
Well considering the majority of the world's population is Asian and African and the chaos and destruction they bring they are incapable of being decent and rich in culture like Europeans instead they are slowly destroying our developed nations and culture
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS, AVISTAL THIS GORGEOUS VIDEO WAS MADE BY MEAV'S AND OUR WONDERFUL FRIEND, ISOLA Isolda Penna Machado FROM BRAZIL. SHE CREATED A MEAV "MUSIC BOX" FOR HER MEAV ON-LINE FORUM SITE . IT'S THE FIRST SONG THAT I EVER HEARD MEAV SING IN 2002. "GREENSLEEVES" IS MY FAVORITE OF ALL SONGS...AND SO, THIS IS MY FAVORITE MEAV SONG. ALSO THANKS "CAPTAINDASHUND" FOR SHARING THE WORDS OF THIS WONDERFUL OLD FAVORITE. ...TRULY, MEAV IS THE BEST OF THE VERY BEST. SANDY HARLOW ... CO-ADMINISTRATOR OF MEAV'S CELTIC SONGBIRD OFFICIAL ON LINE AND FB FORUMS Meav "Celtic Songbird"OFFICIAL Facebook Forum (meavforum.com extension)
This familiar masterpiece is comfortable to the ears and the mind There is something extraordinary in her splendid singing voice From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
You are spreading wrong information. Greenesleeves has it's origins in the mid-twelvth century, around 1140 AD. The music and the lyrics developed over time, spread mostly by Bards.
There are people in England, who believe in Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as well. What is true and what people want to believe is true, are very often quite different. Case in point, here.
Astrogirl1usa Arthur very likely was a real person and Greensleeves first appeared in the 16th Century but thank you for educating me on my country's history. Now I would like you to stop spreading wrong information yourself.
I had sang this version, and the interments do not change with the singer. I sang this in a trio, a friend played a wooden flute, and another piano, and I sang.
If that is true, well, I have a few green sleeves myself! That is really interesting; when I listen to this all I can think of is Anne from The Tudors! Its like it was written for her!
There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously". However, Henry did not compose "Greensleeves", which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian style of composition that did not reach England until after his death.
@@LokiusMaximus a Lit major too. Wanted me to post a scholarly source instead? Should I have put citations in MLA? I don't even remember why I posted it probably so people would look it up themselves instead of assuming. Appreciate the art and move along. Ps at the time I was a kid who didn't get the idea of plagiarism and also now I kno that Wikipedia is made up of copy and pasted info hence it is not a credible source.
Actually that is one interpretation yes, an alternate one was that Lady Green Sleeves was mistaken as one through her costume. Thus her "discourteous" rejection of the noble's/singer's advances; this supports that she was not a lady of the night. Another one is in Nevill Coghill's translation of The Canturbury Tales, in which he explains that "green" back then was the color of lightness in love. This is supported in the lines 'Greensleeves is my delight' as well as other lines in the song.
I had a dream of this song when I was 3. There was a princess walking up the stairs in a castle singing this song, it was truly magical ❤
I love this song! My grandma used to sing this song to me when i was a baby. She bought me a jewlery music box with this lullaby. I used to play it every time i missed her.
My great-grandmother used to sing this song for me and my brother when i was very young. Now i am 16 years old, and i always cry when i play this song with my shamisen. Rest in peace, sweet Elizabeth.
So many are in awe of the beauty of this song that it is neglected that this is a song of pain also. He loved her and gave her all he could and still he lost her and she would never love him.
So imo there should be some element of pain in the singing and this is not only a comforting song...its a song about love and loss...and this version has those elements of beauty and pain imo ... beautifully done
I'm from australia and can not wait to get out and see Ireland and England!
It looks so beautiful, & this song & music is so amazing!
Its so calming and sweet, I know this may sound weird but my dog and cat, especially my Cat, loves this song!
Beautifully done. Meav has an awesome voice! Thanks for the upload!
I'm Irish, French, and English all mixed together. So I get to visit three beautiful countries before I die. Simply wonderful :)
This version is absolutely beautiful and with such magnificent vocals.
A GORGEOUS woman with a gorgeous voice!
this is my all time favorite song i really love the pics in this video
The best version of Greensleves. I can imagine that it comes nearly to an original song composed 1580.
beautiful singing beautiful melody beautiful flute but that other musical instrument is just horrid
There is an oral tradition in Ireland that the song - or at least the lyrics as we know them today - originated in County Mayo in the second half of the sixteenth century (the first verse is an almost verbatim translation of a Gaelic ballad.)
@@zsoltkiss545 they were registered in England, they're not Irish at all.
@@zsoltkiss545 It was written by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn so it's actually English.
@@martinputt6421not true
i don't know..but i couldn't stop crying when i heard this song again for the first time since junior high..brought back so many memories..well done celtic lady bravo ! she's an angel!
+Kalifornia Sur Thank you for your lovely comment, ...This gorgeous young lady singing is our Méav Ni Mhaolchatha of Dublin, Ireland. She is truly our No.1 Irish Lady of Song and we love her dearly. You can find Meav's celticsongbird official forum on fb...feel free to join us there. She will sing for you every day. ..
Sandy Harlow
Administrator of Meav Celtic Songbird Official FB Forum
+SANDY HARLOW the celtic woman are they still together ...?
takes me right back to the sixteen hundreds
Kalifornia Sur Kalifornia Sur...yes, Celtic Woman is still touring together with a whole new group of beautiful singers. Méav occasionally kindly travels and sings with them. Méav is now Celtic Woman's voice director and creative consultant. Thank you so much for asking.
To think that this song was composed over 500 years ago, fills me with a sense of awe.
What a beautiful voice!
my home! with a beautiful voice! i'm tearing with joy thankyou for this amazing glimps of my home country.
Excellent! Thank you.
I'm so happy to have find the melody that we in terpreted the "Graduation Day" thanks you very much because it was .many many years ago but i still remember that song. Sincerely thanks.
Very nice! What a beautiful voice..congratulations!
Love, love, love this song! I actually have this on a music box that my mom made when I was a toddler!
Awesome! Meav has the voice of an angel!!
this song makes me feel like my soul has been awakened from a long, deep sleep. Never do I want to sleep again, but when I feel the burden of needing rest I will just relax to this masterpiece.
esta é uma das melhores interpretações desta linda musica!
ah i love this song :) the landscapes are nothing but gorgeous :) i am now so yearning to take a trip to my homeland :)
Always Absolutely Loved this SONG & VERSION!!!!!
(It was One of my Mama's songs)
❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤❤❤
I love the photos!! I absolutely love this song too.
Great song! The singer has a very beautiful voice!!!
Does anybody know the name of the singer?
Yue Sarutobi
I know it's late, but her name is Méav Ní Mhaolchatha.
@Avostal The very best of this song I have ever heard, along with such beautiful photos. I do believe Henry would be proud of his song if he could hear this. Thank you for the upload. It is now saved as a favorite.
Beautiful, it's inspiring me to write my romantic period novel...thank you....
+Haute Swan
Pleas, do it ! Nothing is more pleasant than a romantic novel ! (I wrote one...)
care to share? :)
Remember to credit Henry please!...
Is the novel about a loose wench and are you calling this novel "wizards sleeve.......
i have always loved this song. i found out that my uncle loved this song as well, unfortunately he died before i was born. so whenever i hear this song, i feel so sad that i never met him. but i will always listen to this song forever more.
Awesome voice! Thanks!
True Christmas. Memories to last year when I saw the Irish Revels- so inspiring.
Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
And i have loved you so long,
Delighting in your company.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves.
Thy smock of silk, both fair and white,
With gold embroidered gorgeously;
Thy petticoat of sendal right,
And these I bought thee gladly.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves.
I bought thee kerchiefs for thy head,
That were wrought fine and gallantly;
I kept thee at both board and bed,
Which cost my purse well-favoredly.
I have been ready at your hand,
To grant whatever you would crave,
I have wagered both life and land,
Your love and good-will for to have.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves.
Ah, Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu,
To God I pray to prosper thee,
For I am still thy lover true,
Come once again and love me.
CaptainDashund thank you soo much!!!💖
Thank you for supplying the lyrics to this beautiful song !
Pimsri p
DANKE SCHÖN!
❤️🌈🌹
Beautiful singing -a great classic
Such a beautiful song!❤
Très belle chanson et... quelle voix !
Merveilleux.
this song is sooo beautiful
This is gorgeous. I have Irish heritage, but now I want to learn the language and move to Ireland! Gorgeous scenery and gorgeous singing!
This song has nothing to do with Ireland, it’s English
It's an English song,it was by Henry VIII to his then Queen Anne Boleyn,check the facts before crediting a different country for an originally English love song
One can certainly picture the likes of "Robin of Sherwood", "Connor MacLeod", "Duncan MacLeod", "Guy Fawkes" or "Barry Lyndon" listening to this timeless masterpiece.
THIS IS LOVELY...MÉAV NI MHAOLCHATHA...OF IRELAND.
NONE OTHER CAN SING AS BEAUTIFULLY AS OUR IRISH CELTIC SONGBIRD.
LISTEN TO ALL OF HER SONGS...THEY ARE LOVELY.
After so long with Celtic Woman I can't help wishing that we could see Meav singing this outdoors on a stage with back-up singers, an orchestra and Mairead Nesbitt playing in the background. It would be awesome....
Beautiful song and images! And sung by an angel too!
These types of music are very hard to find on youtube, I'm glad I stumbled upon this.
I have long loved this ballad.
eu adorei todos em fim encontrei tudo que eu precisava nomomento me transportar desse mundo caotico que nos vivemos e nos trasportarmos para um tempo de magia obrigado por ter me dado esse praser que pouco o tem.
Congratulation, very beautiful music!
As a canadian teen with family ties to England and Ireland, I feel proud when music like this is posted on RUclips. It is more respectible, not to mention beautiful, in my opinion than what is posted on this site in recent years.
10 years have passed, yet your words only ring truer with each passing day..
@@typescriptlanguage Indeed,the increasing madness and the height of deathlessness is absolutely disturbing
This is the best version I have heard! Meav Has an awesome voice! Thanks for the upload!
It's alright, but female voices just don't cut it for this song.
For an awesomer version try The King's Singers!
Amen! She's awesome!
FANTÁSTICA INTERPRETAÇÃO, BELÍSSIMA E MAGNÍFICA MÚSICA.
I LOVE THIS "CHANSON ! VERY MUCH! GREAT PERFOMANCE!
Really beautiful. A hidden classic
Hark! I hear an angel singing!
Let All Creation Praise The Lord For His Loving kindness Is Everlasting!!! V.W.
Que bello que canta esta mujer
beautiful. she does it so perfectly.
Beautifully sung.
That's the best version ever.
Oh my goodness, I had no idea that Celtic Woman did Green Sleeves. This is lovely.
Nice to hear Meav as well :) she has a beautiful voice.
Celtic Woman does not do "Greensleeves", Sapphire848. This is Méav as she sings from her beautiful solo cd "Meav: A Celtic Journey". I believe that CW helped promote Méav's album and therefore, many think that it is a CW song. It's only Méav's song. And...believe me, only Méav could sing this gorgeous old ballad the way it should be sung....and she surely has on her solo album. Méav's soothing, calming, comforting, perfectly pitched, angelic voice is truly lovely as she sings her songs...all of them...especially "Greensleeves" and "What Child is This"..the same melody..which Méav sang in the CW concert "Home for Christmas". ...
Sandy Harlow
Admin of Méav's Celtic Songbird Official FB Forum
wonderful, just wonderful.
so beautifull!!
So utterly beautiful...
Such a beautiful song!
If only the world could be this calm in spirit and song
Well considering the majority of the world's population is Asian and African and the chaos and destruction they bring they are incapable of being decent and rich in culture like Europeans instead they are slowly destroying our developed nations and culture
Very beautiful!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS, AVISTAL
THIS GORGEOUS VIDEO WAS MADE BY MEAV'S AND OUR WONDERFUL FRIEND, ISOLA
Isolda Penna Machado FROM BRAZIL. SHE CREATED A MEAV "MUSIC BOX" FOR HER MEAV ON-LINE FORUM SITE . IT'S THE FIRST SONG THAT I EVER HEARD MEAV SING IN 2002. "GREENSLEEVES" IS MY FAVORITE OF ALL SONGS...AND SO, THIS IS MY FAVORITE MEAV SONG.
ALSO THANKS "CAPTAINDASHUND" FOR SHARING THE WORDS OF THIS WONDERFUL OLD FAVORITE. ...TRULY, MEAV IS THE BEST OF THE VERY BEST.
SANDY HARLOW ...
CO-ADMINISTRATOR OF MEAV'S CELTIC SONGBIRD OFFICIAL ON LINE AND FB FORUMS
Meav "Celtic Songbird"OFFICIAL Facebook Forum (meavforum.com extension)
I adore this song and Meav is the perfect vocalist for it! 💚💚💚
i used to hum his song when my kids were little when they were sick, it seemed they knew they weren't feeling well and it soothed them
Thank you for such a mysterious song.
I hope one day i walk down the aisle with this background music ♥️
Sweet song and voice
This familiar masterpiece is comfortable to the ears and the mind
There is something extraordinary in her splendid singing voice
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Très bien chanté et très émouvant
So so wonderful
Wonderful song!!
The first thing I thought was... AYA.
I didn't know that the song she sang was... real. It's so beautiful *^*
Congratulations. Direct in my hearth!
such a pretty song...
Beautiful!
Real beautiful song.
Hermosa versión...!!!
Linda musica,para mim,esta é a melhor versão de greensleeves!
This is the best song I've ever heard..it is beautiful :D
Exelente, que relajante
Music by Henry 8, lyrics by William Shakespeare, sung here by Méav Ní Mhaolchatha.
In England, thats what is commonly believed to be its origin.
You are spreading wrong information. Greenesleeves has it's origins in the mid-twelvth century, around 1140 AD. The music and the lyrics developed over time, spread mostly by Bards.
There are people in England, who believe in Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as well. What is true and what people want to believe is true, are very often quite different. Case in point, here.
Theres been no actual factual way to disqualify the possible reign of a King Arthur in ancient/medieval England.
Astrogirl1usa Arthur very likely was a real person and Greensleeves first appeared in the 16th Century but thank you for educating me on my country's history.
Now I would like you to stop spreading wrong information yourself.
Who on earth could have the heart to dislike this?!?
(: this is a great song that i love thanks fore posting it :)
This song will be heard for many CENTURIES to come........
The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston brought me here! The book is amazing.
" Anne....Are you listening? ".....whispered the Bard
Amazing!
i always loved Celtic Woman
This brilliantly!
@mjutsu2 same reason Oh Danny Boy is sang by men but written by a women for her son
GYÖNYÖRŰ ! KÖSZÖNÖM SZÉPEN !
I had sang this version, and the interments do not change with the singer. I sang this in a trio, a friend played a wooden flute, and another piano, and I sang.
If that is true, well, I have a few green sleeves myself! That is really interesting; when I listen to this all I can think of is Anne from The Tudors! Its like it was written for her!
There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously". However, Henry did not compose "Greensleeves", which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian style of composition that did not reach England until after his death.
Good job copying and pasting from Wikipedia and not providing credit. You do realize that plagiarism, don't you? Let me guess, "college educated" too.
@@LokiusMaximus a Lit major too. Wanted me to post a scholarly source instead? Should I have put citations in MLA? I don't even remember why I posted it probably so people would look it up themselves instead of assuming. Appreciate the art and move along. Ps at the time I was a kid who didn't get the idea of plagiarism and also now I kno that Wikipedia is made up of copy and pasted info hence it is not a credible source.
Maybe, but he would have loved the song and he would have also loved this story.
Perfect. Thank you : )
Actually that is one interpretation yes, an alternate one was that Lady Green Sleeves was mistaken as one through her costume. Thus her "discourteous" rejection of the noble's/singer's advances; this supports that she was not a lady of the night.
Another one is in Nevill Coghill's translation of The Canturbury Tales, in which he explains that "green" back then was the color of lightness in love. This is supported in the lines 'Greensleeves is my delight' as well as other lines in the song.
It is beautiful. It's interesting though what Green Sleeves mean. Thank you Eivyll for the translation.