Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair

Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair

Listen to ​Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair (Instrumental Piano Version)

Lyrics

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
For she once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without any seam nor needlework
And then she’ll be a true love of mine

Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Which never sprung water nor rain ever fell
And then she’ll be a true love of mine

Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Which never bore blossom since Adam was born
And then she’ll be a true love of mine

Ask her to do me this courtesy
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And ask for a like favour from me
And then she’ll be a true love of mine

Have you been to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me from one who lives there
For he once was a true love of mine

Ask him to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea-sand
For then he’ll be a true love of mine

Ask him to plough it with a lamb’s horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And sow it all over with one peppercorn
For then he’ll be a true love of mine

Ask him to reap it with a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it up with a rope made of heather
For then he’ll be a true love of mine

When he has done and finished his work
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Ask him to come for his cambric shirt
For then he’ll be a true love of mine

If you say that you can’t, then I shall reply
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Oh, Let me know that at least you will try
Or you’ll never be a true love of mine

Love imposes impossible tasks
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
But none more than any heart would ask
I must know you’re a true love of mine

Song Info

Original Artist

Simon & Garfunkel

Composer

Traditional

Album Title

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Year

1670

Popular Culture

Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel famously covered Scarborough Fair in 1968

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