Saturday 15 May 2021

S & G by request

Seems you folks can't get enough of Simon & Garfunkel.  I've had a few requests for 'Scarborough Fair', another of their classics. I say classics, but in fact it is an old folk song. On their recorded version they sing it in counterpoint with a Paul Simon kind of peace song,( available here at https://youtu.be/-BakWVXHSug ) but here it is the simple folk tune with some lovely harmonies between the two of them. Once again, we are at the 1982 Concert in Central Park. Relaz with the half a million and enjoy... Words below, with the Simon words in italics..

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  in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme  Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground
Without no seams nor needle work   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    A sprinkling of leaves
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme   Washes the grave with silvery tears
Between the salt water and the sea strands  And polishes a gun
Then she'll be a true love of mine
 
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather Blazing in scarlet battalions
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme          Generals order their soldiers to kill
And gather it all in a bunch of heather     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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