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Description: | Written in the times of Elizabeth I, the original Green Sleeves and its melody are still familiar today: 'Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. For I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. Green sleeves was all my joy, Green sleeves was my delight: Green sleeves was my heart of gold, And who but my lady Green-sleeves?'
In his later years, Robert Burns was heavily involved with collecting Scottish songs for two publications - The Scots Musical Museum by James Johnson and A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice by George Thomson. For these publications and his own pleasure he added his own touch to many old songs and wrote new lyrics for old tunes.
Beneath in Burns' hand is written: 'An ye had been where I had been,' RB, which appears to be on a separate piece of paper attached to the document. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Version by Robert Burns of the song 'Gre | Go to resource |
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