My Robin is to the greenwood gone (original) (raw)

"My Robin is to the greenwood gone" or "Bonny Sweet Robin" is an English popular tune from the Renaissance. The earliest extant score of the ballad appears in (c. 1600) as "Robin Hood is to the greenwood gone". References to the song can be dated back to 1586, in a letter from Sir Walter Raleigh to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester saying "The Queen is in very good terms with you now, and, thanks be to God, will be pacified, and you are again her Sweet Robin."