Some friends of mine pointed outa while ago that certain songs can be
sung to the tune of Greensleeves, and the lyrics of Greensleeves can
likewise be sung to their tunes. The secret, of course, is that
Greensleeves is in iambic pentameter.

Someone with too much free time has a webpage about this:

http://webcom.com/shadow/grotto/gilligan.html

The list only has modern stuff on it, so all of the broadside ballads
which are sung to Greensleeves (or Millfield) aren't included, but
here's their list:

     Greensleeves/What Child Is This 
     Gilligan's Island 
     House of the Rising Sun 
     Stairway to Heaven 
     Amazing Grace 
     American the Beautiful 
     O Little Town of Bethlehem 
     Puff the Magic Dragon 
     The Yellow Rose of Texas 
     The "Ode to Joy" from the Fourth Movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 
     The Marine Corps Hymn 
     Sandy (by Harry Chapin): 

     Sandy is the seashore
     And Sandy is the sea
     Sandy is the clear blue sky
     Or so it seems to me
     Oh yes, I see her everywhere
     In everything I see
     She can turn to anything 
     That she would like to be

     most sonnets by Shakespeare 
     any poem by Emily Dickinson 

Gregory Blount

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