Mix Margaret Dylan Jones

Greensleeves dates from 1580 when the tune and original lyrics were first mentioned in a list of publications in Elizabethan England. Over the next few years it was published several more times, including one version with sixteen verses.

Many years ago I began making arrangements of Greensleeves for my singing students. In early 2018 I published one in a limited edition, but also continued to develop more sophisticated versions.

The project has grown into another new version to be published under several titles with different lyrics. Each of those has further small variations in lyrics to choose from.

I've modernised the lyrics in a similar fashion to my new arrangements of Amazing Grace and Londonderry Air, borrowing some words from the original. Each of these songs will be published in multiple versions for different forces and with a choice of lyrics for different singers and audiences.

Publication of the first versions with my new lyrics is due in early 2019.

www.mixmargaret.com/greensleeves

http://www.mixmargaret.com/greensleeves-project-overview.html

© MDJ 2019.

See my other arrangements of traditional tunes:

Amazing Grace
Londonderry Air