Digital Tradition Mirror

Scarborough Fair

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Scarborough Fair

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

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt...
Without any seam or fine needlework..

Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well
Where water ne'er sprung nor drop of rain fell

Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn
Which never bore blossom since Adam was born

Now he has asked me questions three
I hope he will answer as many for me

Oh, will you find me an acre of land
Between the sea foam and the sea sand

Oh, will you plow it with a lamb's horn
And sow it all over with one peppercorn

Oh, will you reap it with a sickle of leather
And tie it all up with a peacock's feather

And when you have done and finished your work
Come to me for your cambric shirt

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Child #2   popular version.  Ewan MacColl sings it  on  "Matching
Songs"
SOF

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