Scarborough Fair/Canticle, provided with The Elfin Knight, Whittingham Fair and Rosemary Lane, and with an Appendix on Riddles Wisely Expounded
Simon & GarfunkelLanguage: English
A1. SCARBOROUGH FAIR
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Remember me to one who lives there,She once was a true love of mine.
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Without no seams nor needlework,Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand,Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather,Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Remember me to one who lives there,She once was a true love of mine.
2. CANTICLE
On the side of a hill in the deep forest green
Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground
Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains
Sleeps unaware of the clarion call
On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves
Washed is the ground with so many tears
A soldier cleans and polishes a gun
War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions
Generals order their soldiers to kill
And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten.
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