What if Greensleeves was Reggae

An Elizabethan folk song gets a slow, sunlit reggae sway: clipped offbeat guitar, warm bass, organ bubble, hand percussion, and a clear vocal that lets the old words sit plainly in the groove. The verses stay spacious; the final return opens into horns and a wider lift.

Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song first documented in print in 1580, with an early complete text in A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584). 1 This release follows the five-stanza lyric transcription published by Classical Music, using the traditional text rather than lyrics from a later recorded arrangement. 2

Listen on a warm afternoon, a slow drive, or whenever a familiar melody needs a new pocket.