| Alas, my love you do me wrong
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| To cast me off discourteously
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| And I have loved you so long
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| Delighting in your company
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| I have been ready at your hand
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| to grant whatever you would crave;
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| I have both wagered life and land
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| Your love and good will for to have
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| I bought the kerchers to thy head
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| That were wrought fine and gallantly
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| I kept thee both at board and bed
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| Which cost my purse well favouredly.
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| Chorus
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| Greensleeves was all my joy
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| Greensleeves was my delight
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| Greensleeves was my heart of gold
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| And who but my Lady Greensleeves?
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| I bought thee petticoats of the best,
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| the cloth so fine as fine might be:
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| I gave thee jewels for thy chest,
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| and all this cost I spent on thee.
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| Well, I will pray to God on hie,
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| that thou my constancy maist see:
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| And that yet once before I die,
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| thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.
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| Chorus
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| Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu!
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| God I pray to prosper thee;
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| For I am still thy lover true
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| Come once again and love me.
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| Chorus
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| Who but my Lady Greensleeves? |