Scarborough Fair-Simon & Garfunkel

Scarborough Fair Scarborough Fair is a song by Simon & Garfunkel, an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. Paul Simon learned the song in London in 1965 from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and included it on his eponymous 1965 album. Simon & Garfunkel set it in counterpoint with "Canticle"—a reworking of the lyrics from Simons 1963 anti-war song, "The Side of a Hill", set to a new melody composed mainly by Art Garfunkel. The Coolies first album, dig..?, released in 1986 by DB Records, consisted of nine tongue-in-cheek covers of Simon & Garfunkel classics, including this track. "Scarborough Fair" b/w "The Sounds of Silence" was released as a 7" single. The Lyrics of Scarborough Fair: 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 (A hill in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Tracing of sparrow On snow-crested brown) Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes The child of the mountain) Then shell 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 grave with silvery tears) Between the salt water And the sea strand (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun) Then shell be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it With a sickle of leather (War bellows blazing In scarlet battallions) Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause Theyve long ago forgotten) Then shell be a true love of mine