Scarborough fair (Traditional)
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CPDL #15697: 
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- Editor: John Kilpatrick (added 2007-12-21). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 44 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: arr. John Kilpatrick for SSATB
CPDL #11115:
- Editor: Adriano Secco (added 2006-02-28). Score information: Unknown, 4 pages, 192 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: arr. Adriano Secco for SATB
General Information
Title: Scarborough fair
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Number of voices: 4 or 5vv Voicing: (S)SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
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-crested brown
Without no seam nor needle work,
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 grave with silvery 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 with a sickle of leather,
War bellows lazing in scarlet batallions
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Generals orders 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.