Chords for Greensleeves

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_ There are some tunes that every harp player is simply required to know.
Actually, there's a short list.
Danny Boy, the Pachelbel Canon in D, _ there's quite a few tunes in order to be a card-carrying harp player.
You have to be able to play these tunes.
This next tune is one of them.
We first know of this tune based on a pair of Renaissance passamezzos.
A passamezzo is a chord progression that's played over and over.
Before people had televisions and were able to go out to the movies and things like that,
people would get together at each other's houses and bring whatever instruments they
had and they would play passamezzos for the evening.
Passamezzi is the actual plural.
These two passamezzos, the first is called the passamezzo antico, the old passamezzo,
which is what they called it in the 15th century, and the passamezzo romanesca, the passamezzo
that they played in Rome, a Roman-style passamezzo.
Eventually, these two tunes, these two chord progressions got stuck together because they
worked really well together, and various tunes emerged, the Force of Hercules being
one of them, and this next tune being another of the well-known tunes that are applied over
the top of these chord progressions.
Now many people think that the words for this were written by King Henry VIII.
It's a great story.
There isn't a lot of actual documented evidence to support it, but it sounds like something
Henry would write.
There's 20-something verses and they all are basically dysfunctional love, which was
kind of in style in those days.
I did this for you and you didn't love me.
I tortured these people and you didn't love me.
I conquered this kingdom and you didn't love me.
I gave you this land tract and you didn't love me.
It just goes on and on.
You kind of want to take him by his ermine collar and say, Hank, she's not going for it.
But after the time of Henry VIII, another set of words was written to the same tune,
and it became known to us as, What Child is This?
The tune, Greensleeves.
You might notice that there's something a little odd that's going to happen in the middle,
and that's simply because with the cross-strung harp, I have all of the chromatic ability,
and it's sometimes hard to resist not just going there now and then.
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