Annotation:My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone

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MY ROBIN IS TO THE GREENWOOD GONE. AKA and see "Bonny Sweet Robin." English, Song Air (3/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The air appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Jane Pickering's Lute Book, William Ballet's Lute Book, Anthony Holborne's Cittharn Schoole (1597), and Robinson's Schoole of Musicke (1603). It is possible this was a Robin Hood ballad, though the words have been lost. Chappell (1859) thinks one of Ophelia's lines in Hamlet may be a line of the song:

For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.<nr>

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell ('Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 1), 1859; p. 153.

Recorded sources:

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