Scarborough Fair

Kin to «The Elfin Knight» (Child 2), traced back to 1670, where impossible tasks are set as a riddle; Simon and Garfunkel recorded it in 1966.

[The male]: Am G Am Are you going? To Scarborough Fair? C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G Remember me to a lass that lives there, Am G Am For she was once a true love of mine. Am G Am And tell her to make me a cambric shirt, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G Without any seam or needlework, Am G Am And then she shall be a true love of mine. Am G Am And tell her to wash it in yonder dry well, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G Where no water sprung nor a drop of rain fell, Am G Am And then she shall be a true love of mine. Am G Am And tell her to dry it on yonder thorn, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G Which never bore blossom since Adam was born, Am G Am And then she shall be a true love of mine. [The female]: Am G Am O, will you find me an acre of land, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G Between the sea foam and the sea sand, Am G Am Or never you'll be a true love of mine. Am G Am O, will you plough it with a ram's horn, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G And sow it all over with one peppercorn, Am G Am Or else you'll be a true love of mine. Am G Am Or will you reap it with a sickle of leather, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G And tie it all up with a peacock's feather, Am G Am Or never you'll be a true love of mine. Am G Am And when you have done and have finished your work, C Am C D Am Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Am C C G/B Am G You can come to me for your cambric shirt, Am G Am And then you shall be a true love of mine.

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