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Re: Greensleeves
Feb 18, 2017, 13:49
Stevo wrote:
Turned up as a question on Mastermind this week too.

Song apparently written by Henry VIII about an adulterous woman or something to that effect.


Think I read somewhere that Greensleeves followed an Italian renaissance chord sequence that came just after Henry VIII's time. Hard to prove really, but I suspect it might follow a similar trend to those Shakespeare rumours. With those, his University-educated peers like Thomas Nashe were incredulous at the idea that this unlearned scruff could have bested them, so said that Shakey stole the credit from someone else. Seems likely that Greensleeves was accredited to Henry the VIII He Is simply on account of his being a pezzonovante, when really some talented pleb or court lackey actually wrote it. You'd think if Henry did write it, he may have at least come up with a half-decent follow up at some point in between all the stag-bothering, Bluecuffs or Fuschiabonnet or Indigosurcoat, but no. Maybe he was the historical equivalent of Rick Astley, The Knack or Right Said Fred?
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