Greensleeves. Played by David Nevue. (Photos by Pianopod)

Описание: I took these photos on the Cliff Walk, in Ardmore, Co Waterford, Ireland.

Greensleeves - arranged and played by David Nevue.
Check out his website: http://www.davidnevue.com

This is taken from David Nevue's album "Overcome" (2005)
Winner: "Best Instrumental Piano Album of 2005" at the LifeStyle Music Awards.
David's ninth CD, Overcome is a response to the loss of his father to cancer in 2003. However, this album is not about sadness nor sorrow, but rather a testimony to the spiritual process of passing through it. On Overcome, Nevue includes his arrangements of five hymns and praise songs as well as ten new pieces and a new arrangement of his trademark song, "The Vigil."

"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune.
A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then 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."
The tune is found in several late 16th century and early 17th century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Cambridge University libraries.

There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously". However, Henry did not compose "Greensleeves", which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian style of composition that did not reach England until after his death

One possible interpretation of the lyrics is that Lady Green Sleeves was a promiscuous young woman and perhaps a prostitute. At the time, the word "green" had sexual connotations, most notably in the phrase "a green gown", a reference to the way that grass stains might be seen on a woman's dress if she had engaged in sexual intercourse out-of-doors.
An alternative explanation is that Lady Green Sleeves was, as a result of her attire, incorrectly assumed to be immoral. Her "discourteous" rejection of the singer's advances supports the contention that she is not.[4]
In Nevill Coghill's translation of The Canterbury Tales,[5] he explains that "green [for Chaucer's age] was the colour of lightness in love. This is echoed in 'Greensleeves is my delight' and elsewhere."
In Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, written around 1602, the character Mistress Ford refers twice without any explanation to the tune of "Greensleeves" and Falstaff later exclaims:
Let the sky rain potatoes! Let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'!
These allusions indicate that the song was already well known at that time.

Music used with written permission from David Nevue
Photos copyright Pianopod 2011