Simon and Garfunkel: "Scarborough Fair" Cover

This song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. The arrangement made famous by Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" originated in the mid-20th century. Paul Simon learned it in 1965 in London from Martin Carthy.

Scarborough Fair lyrics
Simon and Garfunkel

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

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt.
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework,
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land.
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
(Washes the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather.
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather.
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

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

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