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Marianne Faithfull – Greensleeves lyrics
Alas my love you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
For I have loved you so long
Delighting in your company.

Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight.
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Lady Greensleeves ?

Alas my love that you should own
A heart of wanton vanity
So I must laddie think alone
Upon your insincerity.

Greensleeves ...
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Songwriters: ARTHUR BURNETTE LYMAN, PD TRADITIONAL
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