William Ballet's Lute tablature: 'greene sleues' c.1592-1603 *Image courtesy of hymnologyarchive.com /Trinity College, Dublin Chances are you may be familiar with this melody, and know it as either the Christmas Carol, "What Child is This?" or the earlier English Ballad, "Greensleeves." Perhaps you read or heard it through the grapevine that the original lyrics and melody were composed by the notorious King of England, Henry VIII as a love song to his soon to be second wife, Anne Boleyn?...

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