Scarborough Fair
Traditional English ballad
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 of sparrow on snow-crusted brown.
Without no seams nor needlework.
Blankets and bedclothes and 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 grave with silvery tears.
Between the salt water and the sea strands.
A soldier cleans and polishes a gun.
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather.
War bellows blazing with scarlet battalions.
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 they're 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.