Scarborough Fair / Songs and Lyrics

2 version(s)

Version 1

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T:Scarborough Fair
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/2=70
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w: Are you going to Scar-bo-rough Fair
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w: Par-sley Sage Rose-Mar-y and | Thyme- -Re
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w: mem-ber me to one who lives There --
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w: She once was a true love of mine--
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W:
W:[Both]
W:Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Remember me to one who lives there
W:For she once was a true love of mine
W:
W:[Man]
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Without any seam nor needlework
W:And then she'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Which never sprung water nor rain ever fell
W:And then she'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Which never bore blossom since Adam was born
W:And then she'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Ask her to do me this courtesy
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:And ask for a like favour from me
W:And then she'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:[Both]
W:Have you been to Scarborough Fair?
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Remember me from one who lives there
W:For he once was a true love of mine
W:
W:[Woman]
W:Ask him to find me an acre of land
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Between the salt water and the sea-sand
W:For then he'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Ask him to plough it with a lamb's horn
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:And sow it all over with one peppercorn
W:For then he'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Ask him to reap it with a sickle of leather
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:And gather it up with a rope made of heather
W:For then he'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:When he has done and finished his work
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Ask him to come for his cambric shirt
W:For then he'll be a true love of mine
W:Until the times do alter.

Version 2

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X:1
T:Scarborough Fair / Canticle
C:Paul Simon
K:
W:Are you going to Scarborough Fair
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Remember me to one who lives there
W:She once was a true love of mine
W:
W:Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (deep forest green)
W:Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
W:Without no seams nor needle work (blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
W:Then she'll be a true love of mine (sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
W:
W:Tell her to find me an acre of land (a sprinkling of leaves)
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (washes the grave with silvery tears)
W:Between the salt water and the sea strand (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
W:She'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather (War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions)
W:Parsley sage rosemary and thyme (General order their soldiers to kill)
W:And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
W:Then she'll be a true love of mine
W:
W:Are you going to Scarborough Fair
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
W:Remember me to one who lives there
W:She once was a true love of mine

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