GREENSLEEVES does it have a "real" less popular name?

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Answer 1

I do believe the first registered name for it was:

"A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves"

sometime in the 16th century.

Answer 2

Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song (or tune), basically a ground of the form called a romanesca; the widely believed legend is that it was composed by English King Henry VIII (1491 - 1547) for his lover and future Queen, Anne Boleyn. Anne, the youngest daughter of the earl of Wiltshire, rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her. This rejection is apparently referred to in the song, when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously." It is not known if the legend is true, but the song is still commonly associated with Anne Boleyn in the public's mind.

It likely circulated in manuscript, as most social music did, long before it was printed. A tune by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves." No copy of that printing is known. It appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as "A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves." It remains debatable whether this suggests that an old tune of "Greensleeves" was in circulation, or which one our familiar tune is.

Answer 3

Derivatives
"Greensleeves" has inspired a number of derivative works. The British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed a Falstaff opera, Sir John in Love (1935), from which Ralph Greaves adapted a Fantasia on "Greensleeves." Another British composer, Gustav Holst, also used the "Greensleeves" melody in the fourth and final movement of St Paul's Suite. Holst also used "Greensleeves" in the fourth movement of his Second Suite in F for Military band as a counter-melody against the Dargason. Its slow tempo has inspired modern languishing renditions. The Christmas carol "What Child is This?" by William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898) used the melody of "Greensleeves" (Bébé Dieu in French), while "I Saw Three Ships" uses a more upbeat variant of "Greensleeves."

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Versions
Leonard Cohen reworked "Greensleeves" into his 1974 song "Leaving Green Sleeves" (off the album New Skin for the Old Ceremony).

The Smothers Brothers sang a modern version of "Greensleeves" with updated lyrics called "Where the Lilac Grows." It is found on their 1962 album The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers. The same year saw film composer Alfred Newman use the melody throughout the film How the West Was Won.

Many other contemporary artists recorded versions of this tune, whether vocal or instrumental, in their own style, including The Jeff Beck Group, Ritchie Blackmore, Timo Tolkki, Leona Boyd, John Coltrane, Enya, Marianne Faithfull, Jethro Tull, Kenny G, Loreena McKennitt, Oscar Peterson, The Scorpions, Derek Trucks, Stratovarius, Roger Whittaker, Vince Guaraldi, George Winston, Olivia Newton John, Neil Young, The Bill Smith Quartet, The Atlantics, Vanessa Carlton, Slime, Blackmore's Night and others.

"Greensleeves" is also the authorized march of the Canadian Forces Dental Branch.

It also forms part of a contrapuntal section in the BBC Radio 4 UK Theme by Fritz Spiegl, in which it is played alongside What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?.

A piano rendition of "Greensleeves" is heard at one point during the video game Xenosaga:Der Wille zur Macht, and it was also featured in the much older game "Punchy" (a "Hunchback" clone), released by Mr. Micro in 1984.

During a "Stump the Band" segment on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, an audience member sang a ditty called "Green Stamps," about a grocery clerk, to that tune. The refrain began, Green Stamps were all she gave...

In HKCEE and HKALE, a version of Fantasia on "Greensleeves" performed by Sinfonia of London and conducted by Sir John Barbirolli is broadcast to ensure all candidates that they have turned to the correct channel before the English listening exam.

The Interactive Fiction computer game series King's Quest, produced by Sierra, used the main theme from "Greensleeves" as title music for the first and second game.

Greensleeves is a popular refrain for ice cream vans.

Answer 4

There was a kid in our school that we called Greensleeves because he used to wipe his very snotty nose on his jacket sleeves.

Answer 5

I think it is the original name written for the Lady Green Sleeves purportedly by Henry 8th.

Answer 6

Harry Belafonte did a vocal version in the 50's called "What Child is This"

Answer 7

I know that the Christmas song "What Child is This" is the same tune. Thats the only other title I know for it.

Answer 8

I know there was a song during Christmas time

Answer 9

Sorry this is gross, but at school we used to call it" sleeves were made before hankies" tune ugh !!! Like all kids i was awful too.

Answer 10

No, it's supposed to have been written by Henry v111 with that title.