- Written by
- [Traditional]
- Publication date
- 1580
- Language
- English
- Tags
- christmas song
- Comments
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Traditional English folk song. A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 and Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) has a reference to the song by that name.
Registered at The Stationer's Hall (England) in 1580. Despite arguments to the contrary, there is no proof that Henry VIII was the songwriter. Sources credit John Dowland (1562-1626) with the ballad version familiar to most of us. - Licensing
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Adaptations
An adaptation is a musical work, which uses elements (music or lyrics) from another musical work.
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Greensleeves written by [Traditional] English 1580
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What Child Is This?
written by William Chatterton Dix
English
1865
— Tune
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-
Loin
written by Richard Anthony, Christian Chevallier
French
1962
- Loin written by Gian Carlo Testoni Italian 1963
- Lejos written by Jorge Córcega Spanish 1963
-
Amsterdam
written by Jacques Brel
French
1964
— Adaptation of the melody
- Amsterdam written by Naòmi Morgan, Bernard Odendaal Afrikaans 2007
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- Amsterdam (In het havenkwartier) written by Will Ferdy Dutch March 1998
- Amsterdam written by Mort Shuman, Eric Blau English September 16, 1967
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- Amsterdam written by Liisa Ryömä Finnish 1984
- Amsterdam written by Baukje Wytsma Frisian 2007
- Amsterdam written by Horst Riedel German 1975
- Amsterdam written by Werner Schneyder German 1975
- בנמל אמשטרדם {bnml 'mstrdm} written by Dan Almagor Hebrew 1970
- Amsterdam written by Duilio Del Prete Italian November 2002
- D'ici written by Hélène Ségara French November 17, 2008
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- Die leuchtende Perle written by Elke Martens German 1995
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- A vén hegyek között written by László Komár, Sándor Juhász Hungarian 1984
- La nostra terra written by Bobby Solo, Gianni Sanjust, Iller Pattacini Italian 1966
- Podarjeni trenutki written by Elza Budau Slovenian 1964
- Molly O written by unknown author(s) Spanish 1963
- En gång i vårt sommarland written by Bengt Haslum Swedish October 1964
Partial adaptations
A partial adaptation is a musical work which integrates only a part of another musical work, and this part is only a fragment of the new musical work.
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