Not gonna lie, Richard Jones wrote a real banger with this one. You think he would have guessed his tune would still be remembered almost 500 years later?
I like this old English song, which has been even modified to be played in Christmas as "What Child this is?" The melody, the rhythm and the lyrics are great, and nice to listen so many years later
I’ve been obsessed with this song since I was in year 4, I don’t remember where I first heard it, but every year since then I go through a phase where I religiously listen to Greensleeves.
Me too…all of my life or maybe lives 🤷♀️ I walked down the Aisle to be Merried with my Husband to Greensleeves…27 years ago …my favourite melody ever and we lakes back down with Love is All Around playing …Wet Wet Wet …not the actual band though 😅lol ☘️
The icecream truck in my neighbourhood used to play this tune since i could remember, and to this day, 25 years later, the same icecream truck with same song still plays in the neighbourhood. So nostalgic.
It is a common legend that Greensleeves was written by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. There is no basis to this but its a nice legend. In fact, we dont know who wrote the original tune. The version most people think of as Greensleeves is the Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves. The original tune is slightly different though recognisable.
Although there’s no fact to base this on that Henry Vlll wrote it for Anne Boleyn, it is known that Henry in his youth was quite adept at such things. And having the kind of tuition that would’ve been available to someone of his social standing, it does seem to make it more believable that Henry could’ve written this. He was apparently well versed in music. The jousting accident caused most of his later problems. It wouldn’t have helped either, with all the political backstabbing that was going on in his royal court. People trying to gain his favour for various reasons. Titles. Land. Money. Positions of power that many wanted, and many would’ve likely tried to manipulate Henry for their own gain. Wolsey was in Henry’s ear once his brother Arthur and his mother had died. A young Henry was very easily manipulated. Left with his extremely cold and detached father Henry Vll who showed little to no love towards him. History recalls that he disliked his own father and went around the countryside and tried to make reparations to those whom his father had persecuted. Of course we know that Henry himself eventually became a persecutor. But that seemed to happen more so, after his jousting accident. We know that head injuries can cause changes in a persons personality. I have seen this first hand from someone I knew in my youth, who in old age developed senile dementia. He was the complete polar opposite of the man I once knew.
Never knew this song had lyrics. Funny that it's basically just the medieval version of "you didn't have to cuuuuutt me off, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing." I guess humans don't change much century to century.
Quite a few years ago, I heard a musicologist on CBC radio explain that, like this one, modern versions of this old song almost invariably play it far too slowly. According to him it was, as the lyrics demonstrate, intended as an uptempo sprightly cynical lament by a man who has showered his mistress with expensive gifts only to be cut off from the charms he thought he'd paid enough for.
It feels so strange that I am russian and yet I still can relate to this song. There was a woman whom I loved inrequiedly. I confessed her and yet she didn't answer me the same. I gifted her a painting of a black lotus that I wrote specifically for her at the end as a symbol of the end of my love for her. Unfortunately I still can't forget her. That painting was called "The lotus of a soul" or "Лотос души" in russian. She could not wish for anything yet still she had it readily. Sweet music still I play and sing yet still she will it love me.
@@patrioticarchivethen who composed it? I thought it was unknown who originally composed it but that it occurred during King Henry’s VIII rule in the 1580’s.
Today if you sing this in England you'll be called some far-right nationalist just because you want to celebrate English culture and not Muslim and Indian culture...
@@pd9935 ye olde English Country Garden is a banging tune 🏴 gets me every time 🥲 ok the lyrics could be modernised n arranged for today’s audience.. a few la la la’s here n there .. even just the bare la la la’s in an instrumental .. or ye olde Greensleeves , wrote by King Henry himself is very apt . bring it down H 👑 🎶 🎵
When you look at the lyrics the facility with words in them days is truly magical. I wish I had lived in that time with my own greensleeves who I could wax poetical with her all day!
Since childhood, every time I listen to this song, I feel a strange nostalgia, as if I lived at that time, some memories flashing through my head. But I'm not even British!
Beautiful my favourite melody ever. Also our Wedding Song 🎵 when I met my Husband I was wearing a Long Green Dress and I’m now a Gardener we grow food together aswell as children lol ….I’m definitely Greensleeves now lol 💚
Why am I drawn to Tudor music? I feel some great pull to the Tudor times, wether its listening to music or looking at paintings or simply just learning about them. Am I a Tudor reincarnate? Sombody please lead me to the truth. I wish I could have whitnessed those times.
_What Child is This?_ , lyrics by William Chatterton Dix, 1865 Birmingham Boys Choir, 2016: ua-cam.com/video/YDf1JyIFPNs/v-deo.htmlsi=tP7dIRvfR-PGppjW Libera, ft. Issac London, live in Ireland, 2013: ua-cam.com/video/KqcOXwlTE54/v-deo.htmlsi=S52SCAMkBDNFDtOS
@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Henry VIII's Act of Union between Wales and England of 1536, didn't make Wales a part of England. In fact, it settled the border between England and Wales.
We never knew the name nor these lyrics until You Tube lol ..everybody used to sing this in my family when I was little it’s also in films …my favourite melody and favourite film The Secret Garden is a beautiful film.
I like to believe in the Henry VIII version of the origin of this beautiful song. Even though he was horribly cruel and sadistic to Anne, the two of them had a very compelling love story. The song sounds like the very spirit of English chivalry culture and the soul of English people reaching to us from Renaissance to modern days.
@ that might be because of the English trying to enforce there language and culture on us for the last 800 years. Invasion and annexation, banning Welsh being spoke in English owned work places, The blue books, the Welsh not, flooding of Welsh communities, Welsh language not having the same legal status as English until 1993, the lack of control of the Welsh tourism industry as it was controlled by Westminster up until 1998. The list goes on.
Not gonna lie, Richard Jones wrote a real banger with this one. You think he would have guessed his tune would still be remembered almost 500 years later?
He is remembered? I feel this man and he wants his love remembered. I think he cares very little for himself or his memory.
@@Seldomheardabout I said his tune was remembered, not him.
@@GEKGanon yeah I’m an idiot.
This exchange is GOLD. Have a great weekend!@@Seldomheardabout
I thought King Henry Vlll wrote it.
When a song is almost 500 years old and still sounds as wonderful as the day it was written then to say its special just doesnt quite cut it
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I like this old English song, which has been even modified to be played in Christmas as "What Child this is?" The melody, the rhythm and the lyrics are great, and nice to listen so many years later
I’ve been obsessed with this song since I was in year 4, I don’t remember where I first heard it, but every year since then I go through a phase where I religiously listen to Greensleeves.
right?? its certainly a song for my dementia days
Me too…all of my life or maybe lives 🤷♀️ I walked down the Aisle to be Merried with my Husband to Greensleeves…27 years ago …my favourite melody ever and we lakes back down with Love is All Around playing …Wet Wet Wet …not the actual band though 😅lol ☘️
The icecream truck in my neighbourhood used to play this tune since i could remember, and to this day, 25 years later, the same icecream truck with same song still plays in the neighbourhood. So nostalgic.
Honestly to I think I was the only one..knew this song before kindergarten.
Same here. Only song that lives in my head rent free past 40 years.
It is a common legend that Greensleeves was written by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. There is no basis to this but its a nice legend. In fact, we dont know who wrote the original tune. The version most people think of as Greensleeves is the Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves. The original tune is slightly different though recognisable.
Yes...that's the one I was looking for...thanks..Vaughan
Was just reading about this in Simonn Jenkins' Short History of England
Although there’s no fact to base this on that Henry Vlll wrote it for Anne Boleyn, it is known that Henry in his youth was quite adept at such things. And having the kind of tuition that would’ve been available to someone of his social standing, it does seem to make it more believable that Henry could’ve written this. He was apparently well versed in music. The jousting accident caused most of his later problems. It wouldn’t have helped either, with all the political backstabbing that was going on in his royal court. People trying to gain his favour for various reasons. Titles. Land. Money. Positions of power that many wanted, and many would’ve likely tried to manipulate Henry for their own gain. Wolsey was in Henry’s ear once his brother Arthur and his mother had died. A young Henry was very easily manipulated. Left with his extremely cold and detached father Henry Vll who showed little to no love towards him. History recalls that he disliked his own father and went around the countryside and tried to make reparations to those whom his father had persecuted. Of course we know that Henry himself eventually became a persecutor. But that seemed to happen more so, after his jousting accident. We know that head injuries can cause changes in a persons personality. I have seen this first hand from someone I knew in my youth, who in old age developed senile dementia. He was the complete polar opposite of the man I once knew.
Never knew this song had lyrics. Funny that it's basically just the medieval version of "you didn't have to cuuuuutt me off,
make out like it never happened and that we were nothing." I guess humans don't change much century to century.
Quite a few years ago, I heard a musicologist on CBC radio explain that, like this one, modern versions of this old song almost invariably play it far too slowly. According to him it was, as the lyrics demonstrate, intended as an uptempo sprightly cynical lament by a man who has showered his mistress with expensive gifts only to be cut off from the charms he thought he'd paid enough for.
You mean baa baa black sheep
My favourite icecream van tune
Yes I wish they would all play it lol …it’s good for ppls well being, it is similar as with running Water frequencies.
Whenever I hear the greensleeves icecream truck tune my mood improves drastically even if I don't buy icecream
@@Sylveon2589 is your pfp an onion?
@@FootInMouthSyndrome no, it's a korok from zelda :(
edit: actually, speaking of pfp's, what is that. why does the egg have feet.
@@Sylveon2589 because i want it to.
This is a very beautiful song, almost hauntingly beautiful.
Lovely, always loved Greensleeves myself.
AH! the Mr Whippy song, always loved it.
Starting to fall in love with the Tudor period.
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an era of treachery, hypocrisy, and paranoia; but the economy flourished.
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I'll take modern plumbing and the curing of many preventable diseases over any previous historical period, ta very much
@@sabrina63 i prefer sails over planes
It feels so strange that I am russian and yet I still can relate to this song. There was a woman whom I loved inrequiedly. I confessed her and yet she didn't answer me the same. I gifted her a painting of a black lotus that I wrote specifically for her at the end as a symbol of the end of my love for her. Unfortunately I still can't forget her. That painting was called "The lotus of a soul" or "Лотос души" in russian. She could not wish for anything yet still she had it readily. Sweet music still I play and sing yet still she will it love me.
Lotus is a car if I remember I you should’ve tried giving her a black Lotus car they go for that kind of thing ha ha just my two cents
@@alanlabudde5041 I think he's referring to the flower.
Get out of Ukraine
@@RMC1989 Do you think he himself is in Ukraine? Get over yourself.
Look, a fool! @@RMC1989
I thought it was composed by King Henry VIII also. Thanks for the educational descriptions as always.
A common misconception and You're very welcome mate.
Henry was the possible composer of "Pass Tyme with Goode Companye" Which we still sing today.
@@patrioticarchivethen who composed it? I thought it was unknown who originally composed it but that it occurred during King Henry’s VIII rule in the 1580’s.
@@corpr8dystopia778 No one knows but there's plenty of theories and 1580s is Elizabethan mate.
I am truly taken aback about this melody. Thank you for sharing it.
We sang this at school in the 60s, wonderful.
We sang this in school in the 2010s in Hungary!
Today if you sing this in England you'll be called some far-right nationalist just because you want to celebrate English culture and not Muslim and Indian culture...
One of the better versions I've heard.
Someone in the comments said hauntingly beautiful..i couldnt find more suitable words if i tried its just truly a masterpiece
Best version thanks for upload this video
Hong Kong students hear this music in listening tests and feel timeless 😂
Wow early English music was another level
Should be the national anthem 🏴 this or English country garden , another classic to get ye olde heart pumping 🏴
English country garden as a national anthem?😂 at least put land of hope and glory, or I vow to thee my country, or anything else 😂
@@pd9935 ye olde English Country Garden is a banging tune 🏴 gets me every time 🥲 ok the lyrics could be modernised n arranged for today’s audience.. a few la la la’s here n there .. even just the bare la la la’s in an instrumental .. or ye olde Greensleeves , wrote by King Henry himself is very apt . bring it down H 👑 🎶 🎵
I normally listen to techno. However this has converted me ❤
Dude a techno remix of this would go SO HARD
@@Oberon4278 it would not
@@Oberon4278 Never say that again
I love this tune so ♡♡🫶🏽much, I'm a huge fan of English folkloric music.
This tune is, and always will be "What Child is this?" in my world.
Apart from it's feature in the Snickers "Feast" series of commercials.
I feel like being part of the royal court hearing this would trigger sensations of power and destiny.
Still my Favorite Song of all time. ❤🎉
Masterpiece.
one of my favorite songs that i learned in primary school
This is the best song from the late 16th Century.
can you name any others lmao
@@mooganify lol
@@mooganify
Scarborough Fair or was that a bit later lol 😅
@@mooganify I don't know if it was from that era, but When Cannons Are Roaring is pretty good
I remember this because pf that one piano and this was my favorite song in that app
When you look at the lyrics the facility with words in them days is truly magical. I wish I had lived in that time with my own greensleeves who I could wax poetical with her all day!
So beautiful😍🏴
We are very fortunate to have this song.🇺🇸
Great video mate as alaways :)
I love this song
Me too.
The lyrics bring a man to tears
I am starting to love British culture
Would also recommend Scarborough Fair or Spem in Alium
This has nothing to do with modern British culture lol
Americans are so weird 😂 This is not our culture at all, you're a few centuries late
@@quantumblurrr Did they say modern British culture?
Make the best of it the left have nearly destroyed it
The true british music!!!
Enjoy the alternative. What Child is this. -
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English music.
i'm here because of duolingo music. i played this instrument and was amazed.
Songs these days rarely last more than a few months, this song is eternal.
I'm 40 and just discovered this song actually has lyrics...
Since childhood, every time I listen to this song, I feel a strange nostalgia, as if I lived at that time, some memories flashing through my head. But I'm not even British!
This is magical!!! ❤
Genius -timeless
Straight banger
We fighting Fatui and Abyss with this one. 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
WE MAKE DANDELION WINE WITH WHIS ONE!!! 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🍷🍷🍷🍾🍾🍾
Fun fact: this was the first song i learned on piano.
This song makes me feel so strange but wonderful at the same time
That opening is truly glorious
Classic
THIS WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN COMPOSED AROUND 1580's OR EARLIER!! THIS WAS USED IN A KOREAN PERIOD NETFLIX SERIES MR SUNSHINE !! LOVELY !! ❤❤❤
Beautiful my favourite melody ever. Also our Wedding Song 🎵 when I met my Husband I was wearing a Long Green Dress and I’m now a Gardener we grow food together aswell as children lol ….I’m definitely Greensleeves now lol 💚
How lovely and very fitting haha
@@patrioticarchive
I know …I’ve always loved this beautiful Melody… even before I was born I think ☝️😅💚
Why am I drawn to Tudor music? I feel some great pull to the Tudor times, wether its listening to music or looking at paintings or simply just learning about them. Am I a Tudor reincarnate? Sombody please lead me to the truth. I wish I could have whitnessed those times.
Ah to love another that does not love you back in that moment of time... have you ever lived.
A lovely dreamy song. It reminds me of my teens when I was into King Arthur and the Green knight.
King Arthur fought against the English. He was Welsh.
I LOVE MY ENGLISH ANCESTRY
Im Djiboutian but i love this song and english culture since when a was kid
This song should be on spotify
Pretty sure this one predates Spotify, more Myspace era...
Y love this song so much, thank you☺
English:such a good song
Chinese:I died in English listening
I'm here because of Mr.Sunshine (K-Drama). I didn't live that long enough to hear this hundreds-year-old piece. So, next 500 years, maybe?
The way they talked in those days has such soul and emotion. I think it would have been a delight to live in those times!
If you're rich, maybe...
We’re hopping off of horses with this one 🔥🔥
This beautiful music was allegedly written by King Henry V111 for Ann Boleyn, I heard this as a child 🇬🇧🏴
It was actually written by Richard Jones.
@@chaingunguy4722 I like to believe it was written by King Henry V111 for Anne Boleyn 🏴
Henry V111 & Ann Boleyn were both cancerian constellations...
This sounds like the music to a Christmas song, but i can't remember the name of that Christmas song.
_What Child is This?_ , lyrics by William Chatterton Dix, 1865
Birmingham Boys Choir, 2016: ua-cam.com/video/YDf1JyIFPNs/v-deo.htmlsi=tP7dIRvfR-PGppjW
Libera, ft. Issac London, live in Ireland, 2013: ua-cam.com/video/KqcOXwlTE54/v-deo.htmlsi=S52SCAMkBDNFDtOS
I never knew Wales was part of England. Learn something new every day 🙃
Was looking for this comment. Salute!
@@sammyb1651it was when this song was made
Cope harder
Between 1536 and 1967 it legally was.
@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Henry VIII's Act of Union between Wales and England of 1536, didn't make Wales a part of England. In fact, it settled the border between England and Wales.
Amen thank you oh God I truly truly love Greenslesvs
Pov: you came here because you found the name of the song the ice cream van plays
We never knew the name nor these lyrics until You Tube lol ..everybody used to sing this in my family when I was little it’s also in films …my favourite melody and favourite film The Secret Garden is a beautiful film.
I love this
i’m here listening to this heart wrenching song after watching some kdramas with a romantic-tragic scene.
My music teacher played this earlier this morning!
Anyone know other songs of the style, i really like green sleeves and scarborough fair!
I don't know what it is about green fabric specifically used to cover the arms. But I like it.
So cheerful tune
Cheerful? More like depressing
- A Hongkonger who used to hear this song in every English listening exam
Wonderful
Around 500 years ago, from 1485 to 1603. One royal family rule English for more than a century.
Namely, the Tudors.
Yes i used to play this on the clarinet for my Dad ❤❤❤❤❤
Greensleeves , man without a hanky.
I like to believe in the Henry VIII version of the origin of this beautiful song. Even though he was horribly cruel and sadistic to Anne, the two of them had a very compelling love story. The song sounds like the very spirit of English chivalry culture and the soul of English people reaching to us from Renaissance to modern days.
Well this map includes wales and we can’t stand the English bastards
We making it out of the royal court with this one.
Did anyone else have music in church set to this tune or am I just imagining that cause it feels right
Ong I thought I was the only one. My Catholic church played this tune a lot to different lyrics
Fantastic!
I LOVE IT GOD BLESS u FOR MAKING THIS
The map is of England and Wales !
That was the map of the Kingdom of England at the time the song originates from.
Thank you England for the English language
Well done Henry ❤
The English : the very best from our great culture. Music like this will preserve it.
Hello. Can you tell us more about the Choir and the transcription please? Thank you very much!
It's all in the description mate
@@patrioticarchive Thank you! I didn't see it! Must be blind, need new glasses! Sorry!
The Tudors made Wonderful music. Sounds like something made now.
Thankyou!!!
Great song.👌🏾
I'm here 'cause of The anthem of the heart.
woah i can fr hear the binary form in this
Who’s here in 1652 still listening?
This song is the basic structure of all modern music
angelus remix
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Imagine if a uk ice cream van pulled up playing this version instead 😭😭
Would get smashed up in Wales and Scotland. Keep your English crap away from us
@@alynwillams4297 Yet you're speaking English?
@ that might be because of the English trying to enforce there language and culture on us for the last 800 years. Invasion and annexation, banning Welsh being spoke in English owned work places, The blue books, the Welsh not, flooding of Welsh communities, Welsh language not having the same legal status as English until 1993, the lack of control of the Welsh tourism industry as it was controlled by Westminster up until 1998. The list goes on.
Teacher said not to eat the paste ♪♫♬
the fact that this is used for dawn winery location ost on genshin impact.