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- From: J-Mag@p25.f2000.n106.z1.fidonet.org
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- Subject: Scarborough fair
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 05:20:34
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- Sunday December 20 1992, Julie Rhodes writes to All:
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- JR> This is not exactly on topic, but there are people here who might well
- JR> be able to help me...I have a bet with my husband that Simon and
- JR> Garfunkle did *not* write Scarborough Fair. I maintain they simply
- JR> arranged it and created "Scarborough Fair/Canticle."
-
- JR> What I need is some kind of source I can quote, or otherwise use as
- JR> "proof".
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- Get yourself to the CML and you'll find it in lots of places. Try Childe.
-
- Here's one trad version that I like (omitting the "parsley, sage, rosemary
- and thyme" which some folks say "sav'ry" for "parsley")
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- Are you going to Scarborough Fair
- Remember me to one who lives there
- She once was a true love of mine
-
- Tell here to make me a cambric shirt
- Without no seams nor rough needlework
- Then she'll be...
-
- Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well
- Where ne'er a drop of rainwater fell
- Then she'll be...
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- Tell her to dry it on yonder dead thorn
- That never a leaf nor blossom has borne
- Then she'll be
-
- Well, if you're goin' back that way again
- Give my regards to that same young man
- What says he was...
-
- Tell him to find me an acre of land
- Between the salt water and the beach sand
- Then he'll be...
-
- Tell him to plow it with a ram's budding horn
- And to plant it all o'er with but one barleycorn
- Then he'll be...
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- Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather
- And to bundle it all with a hummingbird's feather
- Then he'll be...
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- Tell the young fool when he's finished his work
- Only then he can come and collect his new shirt
- For then he'll be a true love of mine.
-
- (This is cobbled from variations in a book on Appalachian folksongs that I
- read about a decade ago.)
-
- - J-Mag
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