Greensleeves questions.

[saphire]

first Question: Did she wrote a part of the lyriks by herself. i mean that on

Your gown was of the grassy green
Your sleeves of satin were hanging by
Which made you be a harvest queen
Yet you would not love me

I found four versions out of 4 diffrent books and they had all the same lyriks without that lyricpart. Did Vanessa wrote it?

second question: WTF has this song to do with christmas. I know its called, "what child is this", but i didn't found the lyriks. Please help me out!!!!

[JazzyManda]

first Question: Did she wrote a part of the lyriks by herself. i mean that on

Your gown was of the grassy green
Your sleeves of satin were hanging by
Which made you be a harvest queen
Yet you would not love me

I found four versions out of 4 diffrent books and they had all the same lyriks without that lyricpart. Did Vanessa wrote it?

second question: WTF has this song to do with christmas. I know its called, "what child is this", but i didn't found the lyriks. Please help me out!!!!

it's been tradition for hundreds of years to play that song around christmas time, don't know where it got started though

Amanda

[VaderDawsn]

Greensleeves is an old old folk melody.  The original folk lyrics are happy.  The version Vanessa Carlton sings was originally done by song folk rock artist years ago. VC did not write these lyrics.

edit: when it come to that particular lyric segment I am not sure if VC wrote that part.

[Xenophanes]

Well, in response to the first question, a Google search for me has only revealed the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack as the only other place where those particular lyrics you quoted were used. I'm fairly certain V didn't write them herself...it seems sort of odd to just add something on to a song as old as Greensleeves.

It doesn't really have anything to do with Christmas. Legend has it that King Henry VIII of England wrote it in the sixteenth century. The lyrics about "what child is this who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping...." were put to the Greensleeves melody in the mid 1800s, and thus the melody became that of a Christmas carol.

[Will]

Ehh... Henry VIII most likely did not write the tune Greensleeves. The music belongs to a style that predates him by nearly a century. It would have been dated in his day.

My three cents (adjusted for inflation).....

[eclv]

So I pulled out my cd and it says Traditional arrangement. Additional arrangement and performance by Vanessa Carlton. Trumpet: Mike Farrell (love him  :wink: )

My cd got smudged and it wasn't until this year that I figured out what the autograph said. Haha

[ILoveHanson]

ahh i stood in the freezing cold for 3 hours in december of 2002 to be able to hear vanessa do that song live. i love it!!!!

[zurielshimon]

This song is very, very old indeed.  The lyrics, all the lyrics, are found in songbooks from the 1600s and 1700s.  The tune is of English origin and could possibly be as old as a thousand years.  "What Child Is This" is a newer song set to the same tune, and as such the tune is often associated with Christmas.  Let me see if I can find some more information.