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Scarborough Fair/Canticle, provided with The Elfin Knight, Whittingham Fair and Rosemary Lane, and with an Appendix on Riddles Wisely Expounded

Simon & Garfunkel
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SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE, PROVIDED WITH THE ELFIN KNIGHT, WHITTINGHAM FAIR AND ROSEMARY LANE, AND WITH AN APPENDIX ON RIDDLES WISELY EXPOUNDED

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.

LA FIERA DI SCARBOROUGH

Se ritorni alla fiera anche tu
Rosmarino verbena e cannella
Ricordami a lei che vive laggiù
E’ stata il mio amore la mia grande stella

Dille di farmi una blusa cambrì
Rosmarino verbena e cannella
Di non cucirla dille così
Sarà il mio amore la mia grande stella

Che la lavi nel pozzo alla loggia
Rosmarino verbena e cannella
Che non riceve più gocce di pioggia
Sarà il mio amore la mia grande stella

Dille di appenderla al ramo là in fondo
Rosmarino verbena e cannella
Che mai fiorisce da che esiste il mondo
Sarà il mio amore la mia grande stella

Un acro di terra mi potrà bastare
Rosmarino verbena e cannella
Fra la sabbia e la schiuma del mare
Sarà il mio amore la mia grande stella


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