So intricate. So delicate. So beautiful. So brutal. So ethereal. So real. Life is bliss. War is hell. This song is something like stained glass coloured with blood.
This song sets so much peace it's unbelievable! Seriously guys, who could not like this song? Is it because there's too much R&B or is it because you don't like classical music? 3 people listen to too much R&B, i think.
It's strange to me why anyone would click on music they don't like, so they can make negative remarks about it. After all they are stuck listening to it while they type. Me, If I don't like a particular group, I don't make comments about it, because I allow everyone to have their own tastes. I just don't listen to it again.
Although carrying the same title & some of the original lyrics, I believe Simon & Garfunkel; using it as an anti war song, changed the meaning to one of a dying soldier preparing for his funeral. The herbs were used to disguise the smell of a dead body, while the Cambric shirt, Without no seams nor needlework represents a shroud, etc. It would fit with the canticle. ........I Believe.
i am growing up in the current generations of teenagers, and actually most of the songs i hear on modern radio stations suck D: i love this song, as well as others by simon and garfunkel, the doors, the beatles, led zeppelin, and other oldies stuff.
@HazukiCrimson don't throw around band names that everyone listens to... listen to Gentle Giant and King Crimson then tell youtubers you listen to "oldies stuff".
I was born in 1964, & while growing up, of course, the mind of a kid. I always thought this was a Thanksgiving song because of the spices it talks about. Those are the ingridients I remember my mom & grandma using on the turkey. It's amazing how the mind of a child thinks. Beautiful song, & beautiful duo...
These two guys were, & still are the greatest duo ever, I think.
This was a traditional english folk song (based on an earlier scottish ballad), arranged by Martin Carthy (who still lives near Scarborough), and was adapted by Paul and Art, who added the antiwar canticle. The song then went global. Many people were involved in the genesis of this version, not just S&G, although I doubt it would have become so famous without their version. Martin found the tune in a songbook by Kirsty MacColl's dad and Pete Seeger's half sister, so quite a folk heritage.
This song is 1000 years old but people are reviewing it as evidence of the awesomeness of the 60's and 70's music scene... Simon and Garfunkle were awesome, though! The original version of this song was The Elf Knight, an obscure Scottish ballad.
Actually you gotta watch the Graduate and kinda fuse it with Apocalypse Now in yr mind......the Scarborough Fair / Canticle was on the soundtrack of the Graduate....it's about that time
Have you noticed that S&G's version of scarborough fair is the only one that has a hidden message? at 1:33 while art is singing "Between the salt water and the sea strand" paul sings "A soldier cleans and polishes a gun" and theres a lot more after that like "War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions" and "Generals order their soldiers to kill". I've checked a lot of versions of this song and there isnt a single one with this hidden message O.o
Would find it hard to believe that people today would say the music of today is the best in the sense of not what sounds great but can music today compare to this kind of music lyrically, melodically, etc? Sure, many songs today might have a great sound, but it's just a variation of syncopatic beats, electronic loops and so on, but musicians today do not strive to make great music any more with double harmonies, ancient instruments like the harpsichord here & brilliant lyrics.
My parents introduced this to me when I was little. It filled my head and heart with magic. I saw a prince and princess lovers dancing by a lake, I saw fairies in the moonlight. I found this song again in my freshman year and still felt the magic. No matter how old I get, I will never lose this.
This is my first guitar lesson title when I was 25 years old. Now I hear this lylic ; a couple who was married for many years say each other their desire which doesn't exist even Scarborough Fair (means whole life).
@suraagsubhedar25 Good question;I for one am totally baffled...what's to dislike???Oh well,it's a VERY small minority.The rest of us can sit back and immerse ourselves in its beauty
@suraagsubhedar25 it's easy, they either have parkinsons, are clearly retarded, or have tourettes in any of these instances they hit the dislike on accident.
I agree, I think theres the darker meaning behind it, almost obscured by the rest of the song. From what I gather, they were giving out a very anti-war message.
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather,
(war bellows blazing in 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 have long ago forgotten)
@CorruptedPersona I've heard this song over 1,000 times, or at least I thought I heard it. You have pointed out exactly what made it so haunting, so terribly compelling. I never paid attention to those "hidden" lyrics. So cool.
Some people don't take the time to listen to a great song Please excuse them for their ignorancey .They won't understand the meaning of this song unless they take the time to listen to message this song is givin to us Simon and Garfunkel always have messages and meanings in their song some people won't listen take sounds of silence of example that song is saying people hearing without listening people will never know the meaning of song unless they take their so called precious time and liste
Merchants came to Scarborough Fair from all areas of England, Norway, Denmark, the Baltic states and the Byzantine Empire: it lasted an incredible 45 days. There are many theories about the words' meaning, and the song's first version appearing in the mid 17th C. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme may refer to the pagan belief that together these four herbs can be a love charm. Parsley for lust, sage for wisdom, rosemary for remembrance and thyme to make her irresistible to him.
As If traveling beneath smooth ripples of water ... I wish I could still hear this song wen I am dead :) I wish I was born earlier to welcome this song :) LOVE IT :)
Well MR. kauaphil. I do wish you well. And many have fallen to the sounds of the mouths who speak. But say nothing. We are few ...but will always be strong. This, our United States. Are not the one WE fought for. Semper.??
I'm 62 and back on the island of Kauai for 9 years now. I'll always think of being at a drive-in theatre in San Antonio, Texas, watching "The Graduate." (early 1968). The year when everything changed. The Tet Offensive, Martin and Bobby dead. I was with the only woman I truly ever loved. At UT, Austin, I became a anti-war activist. Graduated in Philosophy. Became a carpenter/traveler/adventurer for the next 20+ years. Also, a teacher. She ended up working for the Dept. of State in D.C. Aloha.
@fatheroflatus There are actually great, profound artistic reactions from the current generation, it's just that hardly anyone knows about them. But some lucky ones do - I just spent an hour listening to them when I should've been doing my homework.
I'm a child of time...I don't necessarily find meaning in the words of this song, but true meaning in the passion, in which the lyrics are performed. The music conjures a feeling of serenity and introspection...it touches my soul. I've loved this song since I was a teenager...that is a long time ago, when magical thoughts and inspiration were part of the 'Happening' and embraced..
Every generation has its own music and we all believe what we listened to was the best ever. What we have in the 60s and 70s is a proliferation of great writers and lyricists who evoke awesome memories untainted by a personal perceptionof overt commercialisation.
I'm a child of time...I do not necessarily find meaning in the words of this song, but true meaning in the passion in which the lyrics are performed. The music conjures a feeling of serenity and introspection...it touches my soul. I've loved this song since I was a teenager...that is a long time ago, when magical thoughts and inspiration were part of the 'Happening' and embraced..
@winterka100 I think, the message is....we don't need a specific religion or a designated place of worship to 'all come together'. It's about a universal consciousness of peace. Music and lyrics are a universal bridge that transcends all barriers.
@cameronpful Lol, are you serious. Nobody over the age of 13 would ever say that this current generations music is the best ever. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who think's it's even good
@forman208 I don't know... Whilst I dislike the subject of several songs, and I all but despise rap, there are a few gems out there. Granted, I don't listen to much secular music, but what I listen to, I like.
@cameronpful Even tho im only a teenager a history lesson about this age of music made me really respect the music of the age and not just for the hippies
n1gardenfan. those people are missing these days because to many are out for themselves and don't care about making this world a better place for everyone to live in somewhere we seem to of lost the idea of a fair and peaceful world and gone to the me me me one such a shame really.
n1gardenfan. those people are missing these days because to many are out for themselves and don't care about making this world a better place for everyone to live in somewhere we seem to of lost the idea of a fair and peaceful world and gone to the me me me one such a shame really
ok i wasnt going to comment, I rarely ever do. Im just so tired of hearing "the music of today is so shallow" or "insert artist here is so fake, music these days is all crap"
I am 29 years old. I listen to everything from the Beatles to Wu-Tang Clan and everything in between.
For the Older people who say this..well you are old. No offense but its what you do. Remember your parents saying the same thing? I am bound to do it myself.
As we grow older we change, our likes and dislike change with it. The values we hold onto that is reflected in what we surround ourselves with changes.
@monkeny Art--GOOD art--responds to the social forces of its time. Now consider the pertinent social forces AND artistic reactions to them that occurred in the Sixties, then juxtapose both with the art and forces of other decades.
The forces, albeit somewhat different, still exist today and are profound. What's missing is an artistic response. THAT is the difference between generations, and the current one remains wanting.
I can promise you that music "isnt all going to crap and shallow and fake" Just like in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's there are groups/people that stink, that are shallow, that have no more subtstance than what is in front of them
Not everyone is like that. Dont think they are. There is a LOT of every Genre that is still smart, deep, intellectual. Dont let your racism/biased/closed off minds delude yourselfs.
@GreatQueenFan That's the Canticle part. Scarborough Fair (the text not in bracets) is an old Scottish/English ballad from the late 1500's. Canticle (the text in bracets) is a Paul Simon anti-war song, originally called The Side Of A Hill. Oddly, it was Garfunkel, not Simon, who thought of using The Side Of A Hill/Canticle as a counterpart to Scarborough Fair...
This song has made me realize that songs of now (Souja Boi, Justin Bieber, etc.) only talk about artificial things: money, clothes, and girls. I think its songs of the past that have given humanity any chance of moving forward.
@chevyvictor, yup! it was this trading fair thingy in england. it is suspected, that this was a song about a chick who fell in love. the jerk who she loved said " you have to do these things if u wanna marry me." ( hence, " then she will be a true love of mine".) thats why there are so many impossible tasks. he didnt want to marry her. so she answered back with MORE impossible tasks. this is just what historians suspect. ^_^
@abravar2 Really? I always thought it was a girl who'd cheated or something similiar, And he'll only love her again if she performs an impossible task. I don't see how the part where he says "she was once a true love of mine" fits in with the other theory.
While listening to this song I find myself wondering is the music of today will still be relevant decades later? So many songs from the 60's and 70's are still able to reach out and touch the heart even after so many years.
This song is about war many years ago. Parsley , sage, rosemary and thyme was used to springkle on corpse to reduse the stench till the burial ....... I got this info on the local radio station.
@RTHinAZ How right you are! I was in college 66-70. S&G songs defined those years of my life. Sounds of Silence, The Boxer, Bridge OverTroubled Waters, Richard Cory, homeward Bound, etc. They are timeless. Given what passes for music nowadays, I feel so sorry for today's youth...
Bellissima canzone...e pensare che ho scoperto Simon e Garfunkel quasi per caso!!!! Dunque devo dire che il caso questa volta ha prodotto una buonissima cosa :)
3 fellows havent ears my god
bigfefu 15 hours ago
The Graduate
eiroight 1 week ago
this song makes me fall asleep lol not cuz its borin cuz its beautifully sung x
joray100 1 month ago
So intricate. So delicate. So beautiful. So brutal. So ethereal. So real. Life is bliss. War is hell. This song is something like stained glass coloured with blood.
theforgottenwork 1 month ago 3
true serenity, beauty.
thebeatles8126 1 month ago in playlist More videos from JudeOrEleanor
"Dear Elaine,
Elaine
Elaine
Elaine
Elaine...."
tebS23 1 month ago 3
This song sets so much peace it's unbelievable! Seriously guys, who could not like this song? Is it because there's too much R&B or is it because you don't like classical music? 3 people listen to too much R&B, i think.
EmmaAdams1 2 months ago
@EmmaAdams1 Believe me, there is so much more then the 3 dislikers...
ErlenDuck 1 week ago
Not with you two, I won't go. With Oliver, oh yes, of course.
UnovaLegend 2 months ago
Cylon and Garfunkel brought me here bc of their beautiful cover of this at Bend Aid.
southerncajuncharm 2 months ago
@southerncajuncharm "Here s a song that was beautiful, when performed by my ancestor, Art..."
Dynamitrios 1 month ago 4
@Dynamitrios
Are you going to Scarborough Fair"
southerncajuncharm 1 month ago
Brilliant! Matt Groening knows what he's talking about!
oscarwilde95 1 week ago
3 people just hit puberty
NicoDraak74 2 months ago
@NicoDraak74 3 people did not experience war.
andatodica 1 month ago
So beautiful. Do they make music like this anymore?
peterwdeng 2 months ago in playlist Easy Listening
It's strange to me why anyone would click on music they don't like, so they can make negative remarks about it. After all they are stuck listening to it while they type. Me, If I don't like a particular group, I don't make comments about it, because I allow everyone to have their own tastes. I just don't listen to it again.
tribegoddess 2 months ago
Este tema me recuerda, las noches de tristeza y soledad, en la quietud de mi cuarto, sentado ahí.??????¿¿¿¿¿??????Hayyyyyy Venezuela .
PerFreH1 2 months ago
Ggggghjyrop
krisdana25 2 months ago
No one, I said no one, writes 'em more beautiful, touching, dramatic, insightful, and meaningful. Blessed.
probrojeffro 2 months ago
i just listened it two times or three... maybe it was 32..
jusyska 2 months ago
THIS is music !
It's not just a good song, It's also poetry.
Thumbs up if you agree !!
CrabNebulaHitchhiker 2 months ago 3
3 people listen to Rebecca Black.
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Although carrying the same title & some of the original lyrics, I believe Simon & Garfunkel; using it as an anti war song, changed the meaning to one of a dying soldier preparing for his funeral. The herbs were used to disguise the smell of a dead body, while the Cambric shirt, Without no seams nor needlework represents a shroud, etc. It would fit with the canticle. ........I Believe.
MARDAMKIT 3 months ago
i am growing up in the current generations of teenagers, and actually most of the songs i hear on modern radio stations suck D: i love this song, as well as others by simon and garfunkel, the doors, the beatles, led zeppelin, and other oldies stuff.
HazukiCrimson 3 months ago
@HazukiCrimson Guess what man! NO ONE CARES :D!
Bakashackleford 3 months ago
@HazukiCrimson don't throw around band names that everyone listens to... listen to Gentle Giant and King Crimson then tell youtubers you listen to "oldies stuff".
backwardsnamestaken 2 months ago
FUCK COMMERCIALS ON S&G VIDEOS ! They do not deserve this, they are artists, not marketing products.
Ervelen 3 months ago in playlist Vidéos favorites de Ervelen
I wonder if they ever sang this version live? With the overlay lyrics... I've never heard this recording sang live...
neominois 4 months ago
This brings tears to my eyes, they are so perfect!
ladywhispers111 4 months ago
666 likes!!!! This is the song of sataaaaaaaan!!! LOL
BrainyBoy1200 4 months ago
I was born in 1964, & while growing up, of course, the mind of a kid. I always thought this was a Thanksgiving song because of the spices it talks about. Those are the ingridients I remember my mom & grandma using on the turkey. It's amazing how the mind of a child thinks. Beautiful song, & beautiful duo...
These two guys were, & still are the greatest duo ever, I think.
MountEquinox 4 months ago
Listened to this since I was a kid.LOVE IT : ) could listen to this for hours if I had the time. Such beautiful music.
TheHiddenmotive 4 months ago in playlist More videos from JudeOrEleanor
I sing this every time I look at the spices at the grocery store!
guiltyspark66 4 months ago
This was a traditional english folk song (based on an earlier scottish ballad), arranged by Martin Carthy (who still lives near Scarborough), and was adapted by Paul and Art, who added the antiwar canticle. The song then went global. Many people were involved in the genesis of this version, not just S&G, although I doubt it would have become so famous without their version. Martin found the tune in a songbook by Kirsty MacColl's dad and Pete Seeger's half sister, so quite a folk heritage.
SuperNevile 4 months ago 17
Ok, I'm going to Scarborough Fair! :D
Jnporfirio 4 months ago
This is genius' work.
xxStygmataxx 5 months ago
cdfvgbhjnm
Giuls124 5 months ago
heard this on top gear
snypa345 5 months ago
Oh my God, they ripped off Touhou!
ramimarkusmaunula 5 months ago
Yea, I'm going to Scarborough fair.
LilDawniie 5 months ago 2
This song is 1000 years old but people are reviewing it as evidence of the awesomeness of the 60's and 70's music scene... Simon and Garfunkle were awesome, though! The original version of this song was The Elf Knight, an obscure Scottish ballad.
NuttyNuggets 5 months ago
Actually you gotta watch the Graduate and kinda fuse it with Apocalypse Now in yr mind......the Scarborough Fair / Canticle was on the soundtrack of the Graduate....it's about that time
KelicapMayangKelapa 6 months ago
one of the very best they ever did still brings tears to my eyes
brucep216 6 months ago
Canticle was an anti-war message, which was something very much on a lot of people's minds at that point in history. Beautiful song.
cometboss 6 months ago
@TheStrangeMystery That's not a hidden message... that's "Canticle". It's a poem that Garfunkel wrote and set in counterpoint to the song.
kylerweaver 6 months ago 2
Have you noticed that S&G's version of scarborough fair is the only one that has a hidden message? at 1:33 while art is singing "Between the salt water and the sea strand" paul sings "A soldier cleans and polishes a gun" and theres a lot more after that like "War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions" and "Generals order their soldiers to kill". I've checked a lot of versions of this song and there isnt a single one with this hidden message O.o
TheStrangeMystery 6 months ago
can anyone convert this into sheet music or have it for piano or clarinet?
73020emoeskimo 6 months ago
Would find it hard to believe that people today would say the music of today is the best in the sense of not what sounds great but can music today compare to this kind of music lyrically, melodically, etc? Sure, many songs today might have a great sound, but it's just a variation of syncopatic beats, electronic loops and so on, but musicians today do not strive to make great music any more with double harmonies, ancient instruments like the harpsichord here & brilliant lyrics.
sentry221 6 months ago
If I would buy this CD I would have 7 versions of this song. There isn't a bad one among them either.
HuntingForHumans 7 months ago
2:02-2:07 is the probably the most beautiful five seconds in any piece of music
reasonformirrors 7 months ago
My parents introduced this to me when I was little. It filled my head and heart with magic. I saw a prince and princess lovers dancing by a lake, I saw fairies in the moonlight. I found this song again in my freshman year and still felt the magic. No matter how old I get, I will never lose this.
abravar2 7 months ago 3
@abravar2 Me as well...since I was less than 7, now i still listen 2 it from time to time when i need something soothing...
axderaq 6 months ago
Two people are from Albania.
Jaglicic1 8 months ago
2 people were not asked if they were going to Scarborough Fair.
nemesis233 8 months ago
This is my first guitar lesson title when I was 25 years old. Now I hear this lylic ; a couple who was married for many years say each other their desire which doesn't exist even Scarborough Fair (means whole life).
hanasakura88 9 months ago
How can someone dislike this song?!!
suraagsubhedar25 9 months ago 29
@suraagsubhedar25 Good question;I for one am totally baffled...what's to dislike???Oh well,it's a VERY small minority.The rest of us can sit back and immerse ourselves in its beauty
darkfey1963 2 months ago
@suraagsubhedar25 If they're conservative..
mobus1603 2 weeks ago
@suraagsubhedar25 it's easy, they either have parkinsons, are clearly retarded, or have tourettes in any of these instances they hit the dislike on accident.
rmiller415 8 hours ago
fuck me! there are 2 fuckers who disliked this song! god! gomme a break! seriously...
jeffzach20 9 months ago
Gorgeous, intricate, truly exquisite
alabhaois 9 months ago
i am 2 and i love this song
RocafellaAF1 9 months ago
I love this song, it's so soothing, the melody and harmony is so beautiful
Sandra3594 9 months ago
Such a calming song while it's thundering outside. Soothes the soul. :)
SasagawaRyohei1 10 months ago 2
Haunting
Beautiful
Deep
I wish currentusic could be like this so we could all grow up to such beautiful music, but my friends just don't get it :(
3shmigie3 10 months ago 2
@3shmigie
I agree, I think theres the darker meaning behind it, almost obscured by the rest of the song. From what I gather, they were giving out a very anti-war message.
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather,
(war bellows blazing in 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 have long ago forgotten)
Then she’ll be a true love of mine.
CorruptedPersona 10 months ago
@CorruptedPersona I've heard this song over 1,000 times, or at least I thought I heard it. You have pointed out exactly what made it so haunting, so terribly compelling. I never paid attention to those "hidden" lyrics. So cool.
KingKook 8 months ago
@KingKook who pointed it out?
michelepellino 8 months ago
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@michelepellino @michelepellino It was "CorruptedPersona" 1 month ago.
"Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather,
(war bellows blazing in 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 have long ago forgotten)
Then she’ll be a true love of mine."
KingKook 8 months ago
Very beautiful.
I love this song and their other songs.
JinjaKamigamo 10 months ago
Very beautiful.
I love this song and their other songs.
JinjaKamigamo 10 months ago
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I' m French but I speak English . very cool
343bobcat 10 months ago
I' m French but I speak English . very cool
343bobcat 10 months ago
In World War II, they sent infantrymen, like my father, to kill...Dan O'Nealon
spearofdestiny1965 11 months ago
I remember lying in the dark in my bedroom, smoking and listening to this song...stopped smoking, but still love Simon and Garfunkel.
Highland804 11 months ago
goosebumps...always.
shortdancer4life 11 months ago
Thumbs up if you heard this on Gunslinger Girl
bonzoscarpetcleaning 11 months ago
best song ever, there is nothing as enchanting and transcending as this song, ever.
BibaSaporta255 11 months ago
the first time i heard this song, it felt like no other music up to that point ever mattered.
thecaptainof1976 11 months ago
Some people don't take the time to listen to a great song Please excuse them for their ignorancey .They won't understand the meaning of this song unless they take the time to listen to message this song is givin to us Simon and Garfunkel always have messages and meanings in their song some people won't listen take sounds of silence of example that song is saying people hearing without listening people will never know the meaning of song unless they take their so called precious time and liste
SuperPeace191 11 months ago 3
2 people aren't going to scarborough fair
thecomfyshirt 1 year ago
Merchants came to Scarborough Fair from all areas of England, Norway, Denmark, the Baltic states and the Byzantine Empire: it lasted an incredible 45 days. There are many theories about the words' meaning, and the song's first version appearing in the mid 17th C. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme may refer to the pagan belief that together these four herbs can be a love charm. Parsley for lust, sage for wisdom, rosemary for remembrance and thyme to make her irresistible to him.
billybloggins 1 year ago 3
And in the melody
I dissolve afar....
Listen to the five layers of music n vocals...
As If traveling beneath smooth ripples of water ... I wish I could still hear this song wen I am dead :) I wish I was born earlier to welcome this song :) LOVE IT :)
thetewari 1 year ago
Two people didn't go to scarborough fair.
Really.
What idiots wouldn't like this!?!?!?!?!?
Digipup4life 1 year ago
The two peoples who don't like are deaf
timothefoulquier 1 year ago
Well MR. kauaphil. I do wish you well. And many have fallen to the sounds of the mouths who speak. But say nothing. We are few ...but will always be strong. This, our United States. Are not the one WE fought for. Semper.??
gethsenamane 1 year ago
I'm 62 and back on the island of Kauai for 9 years now. I'll always think of being at a drive-in theatre in San Antonio, Texas, watching "The Graduate." (early 1968). The year when everything changed. The Tet Offensive, Martin and Bobby dead. I was with the only woman I truly ever loved. At UT, Austin, I became a anti-war activist. Graduated in Philosophy. Became a carpenter/traveler/adventurer for the next 20+ years. Also, a teacher. She ended up working for the Dept. of State in D.C. Aloha.
kauaiphil 1 year ago
@fatheroflatus There are actually great, profound artistic reactions from the current generation, it's just that hardly anyone knows about them. But some lucky ones do - I just spent an hour listening to them when I should've been doing my homework.
wishfulthinking360 1 year ago
this song always reminds me of my childhood, my dad always played it on a guitar and sang to me. I simply adore it <3
TrixaCrystalmoon 1 year ago
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I'm a child of time...I don't necessarily find meaning in the words of this song, but true meaning in the passion, in which the lyrics are performed. The music conjures a feeling of serenity and introspection...it touches my soul. I've loved this song since I was a teenager...that is a long time ago, when magical thoughts and inspiration were part of the 'Happening' and embraced..
frunue 1 year ago
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frunue 1 year ago
Who dislikes this friggin' song! Some people are infuriating.
IronCladLady8 1 year ago
Have you ever made love to this song? Awesome.
IronCladLady8 1 year ago
just heard this on the radio. omg. so epic and beautiful and haunting
hihowareyou22 1 year ago
she once was
a true love of mine...
deohgesdad 1 year ago
S&G's music has crossed the boundries for generations of listeners.
How many others can attest to that accomplishment??
GM1258 1 year ago
Every generation has its own music and we all believe what we listened to was the best ever. What we have in the 60s and 70s is a proliferation of great writers and lyricists who evoke awesome memories untainted by a personal perceptionof overt commercialisation.
cameronpful 1 year ago 39
@cameronpful ...of course I agree....
I'm a child of time...I do not necessarily find meaning in the words of this song, but true meaning in the passion in which the lyrics are performed. The music conjures a feeling of serenity and introspection...it touches my soul. I've loved this song since I was a teenager...that is a long time ago, when magical thoughts and inspiration were part of the 'Happening' and embraced..
frunue 1 year ago 21
@frunue Any thoughts about Young Bloods' "Get Together"?
winterka100 1 year ago
@winterka100 I think, the message is....we don't need a specific religion or a designated place of worship to 'all come together'. It's about a universal consciousness of peace. Music and lyrics are a universal bridge that transcends all barriers.
frunue 1 year ago
@frunue -I agree with you about the lyrics. The music is much too serene for me to evoke thoughts of some farmer's market or fair. Oh well?
TheMenghi1 1 year ago 2
@cameronpful Yea what you said .... :)
enviousGem 9 months ago
@cameronpful Lol, are you serious. Nobody over the age of 13 would ever say that this current generations music is the best ever. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who think's it's even good
forman208 8 months ago
@forman208 I don't know... Whilst I dislike the subject of several songs, and I all but despise rap, there are a few gems out there. Granted, I don't listen to much secular music, but what I listen to, I like.
*goes back to BarlowGirl CD*
BewareSwordflash 7 months ago
@forman208 im a teenager i think this is better than alomost all of todays stuff most of is shit anways
73020emoeskimo 6 months ago 3
@cameronpful Even tho im only a teenager a history lesson about this age of music made me really respect the music of the age and not just for the hippies
Slapback360 5 months ago in playlist Hippie Music
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n1gardenfan. those people are missing these days because to many are out for themselves and don't care about making this world a better place for everyone to live in somewhere we seem to of lost the idea of a fair and peaceful world and gone to the me me me one such a shame really.
duntalkin 1 year ago
n1gardenfan. those people are missing these days because to many are out for themselves and don't care about making this world a better place for everyone to live in somewhere we seem to of lost the idea of a fair and peaceful world and gone to the me me me one such a shame really
duntalkin 1 year ago
i'm 21 and i grew up with simon and garfunkel, sam cooke, the kingston trio, and nat king cole...i had amazing parents with brilliant music taste
LoONaBLuE 1 year ago
I really love this song. I first heard it in "The Graduate" and I loved it right away.
XxJ2XxX 1 year ago
Simon & Garfunkel take me back 40 years~yes, I know I'm showing my age.
But it takes me back to when I was 15 and in highschool and in love.
This album is still wonderful today as it was back then~ and will be so in
another 40 years when your grandchildren listen to it!
Marleneemm 1 year ago
ok i wasnt going to comment, I rarely ever do. Im just so tired of hearing "the music of today is so shallow" or "insert artist here is so fake, music these days is all crap"
monkeny 1 year ago
I am 29 years old. I listen to everything from the Beatles to Wu-Tang Clan and everything in between.
For the Older people who say this..well you are old. No offense but its what you do. Remember your parents saying the same thing? I am bound to do it myself.
As we grow older we change, our likes and dislike change with it. The values we hold onto that is reflected in what we surround ourselves with changes.
monkeny 1 year ago
@monkeny Art--GOOD art--responds to the social forces of its time. Now consider the pertinent social forces AND artistic reactions to them that occurred in the Sixties, then juxtapose both with the art and forces of other decades.
The forces, albeit somewhat different, still exist today and are profound. What's missing is an artistic response. THAT is the difference between generations, and the current one remains wanting.
fatheroflatus 1 year ago
I can promise you that music "isnt all going to crap and shallow and fake" Just like in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's there are groups/people that stink, that are shallow, that have no more subtstance than what is in front of them
Not everyone is like that. Dont think they are. There is a LOT of every Genre that is still smart, deep, intellectual. Dont let your racism/biased/closed off minds delude yourselfs.
monkeny 1 year ago
what are those extra lyrics? great meaning
GreatQueenFan 1 year ago
@GreatQueenFan That's the Canticle part. Scarborough Fair (the text not in bracets) is an old Scottish/English ballad from the late 1500's. Canticle (the text in bracets) is a Paul Simon anti-war song, originally called The Side Of A Hill. Oddly, it was Garfunkel, not Simon, who thought of using The Side Of A Hill/Canticle as a counterpart to Scarborough Fair...
Proglove85 1 year ago
My name is Simon Paul Lundgren but I call me Paul Simon. My middle name have I get from my grandpa. ;-P
LSStudi0s 1 year ago
definition of beauty
Solus77 1 year ago
This song has made me realize that songs of now (Souja Boi, Justin Bieber, etc.) only talk about artificial things: money, clothes, and girls. I think its songs of the past that have given humanity any chance of moving forward.
raoifty 1 year ago
@raoifty And we did move forward.. to songs about artificial things :).
axty87 1 year ago
2 guys or gals must have missed the "like" button...
orzech1080 1 year ago
was there such a thing as Scarborough Fair?
chevyvictor 1 year ago
@chevyvictor yes. check wikipedia for the thumbnail. Scarborough's a town in Yorkshire, UK.
AlayneKnight 1 year ago 2
@chevyvictor yes. check wikipedia for the thumbnail. Scarborough's a town in Yorkshire, UK.
AlayneKnight 1 year ago
@AlayneKnight i must google earth it. thanks
chevyvictor 1 year ago
@chevyvictor, yup! it was this trading fair thingy in england. it is suspected, that this was a song about a chick who fell in love. the jerk who she loved said " you have to do these things if u wanna marry me." ( hence, " then she will be a true love of mine".) thats why there are so many impossible tasks. he didnt want to marry her. so she answered back with MORE impossible tasks. this is just what historians suspect. ^_^
abravar2 1 year ago
@abravar2 great feedback. must go there one day to mother England. hi from NZ
chevyvictor 1 year ago
@abravar2 Really? I always thought it was a girl who'd cheated or something similiar, And he'll only love her again if she performs an impossible task. I don't see how the part where he says "she was once a true love of mine" fits in with the other theory.
axty87 1 year ago
@axty87 well, in other versions of this song, it says " then she will be a true love of mine." ( or he)
abravar2 1 year ago
m8 JudeOrEleanor, thx so much for uploading this , its beautiful
TheSanity12345 1 year ago
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chopitshop 1 year ago
These boy's sing so good, they could probably make a career out of it...
;o)
leuvenlife 1 year ago
@leuvenlife thats just silly
pslipy 1 year ago
@pslipy no, that was actually funny!
mmasny 1 year ago
While listening to this song I find myself wondering is the music of today will still be relevant decades later? So many songs from the 60's and 70's are still able to reach out and touch the heart even after so many years.
Garion1227 1 year ago 4
Thank you very much for the lyrics! Especially the heard to hear ones (between () )!
You really made me very happy today, THANKS!
Dorothee
dorotheaeli1 1 year ago
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chopitshop 1 year ago
hey, it's bout the war! i did't hear it earlier!
Alive12 1 year ago
Hope this question wouldn't intrude or disturb anything personal. But I like to know why you decide to name your user name like that?
FragileBitch 1 year ago
Piękne. : )
CieszPyska 1 year ago
Piękne. : )
CieszPyska 1 year ago
So relaxing.
Jenbi1 1 year ago
Im crying listening to this !!! Just so,so beautiful !!
posyanne64 1 year ago
Christ, this is not gonna be an easy tune to learn!
Pyrofries 1 year ago
why is tis so good, they mean it.... even tho thet say it wrong ehhhh
markstar777 1 year ago
This song is about war many years ago. Parsley , sage, rosemary and thyme was used to springkle on corpse to reduse the stench till the burial ....... I got this info on the local radio station.
councillor1968 1 year ago
@councillor1968 i never knew this thank you for sharing your information have a blessed day
chopitshop 1 year ago
dammmmm i live in scarbrough
ranchuboy7 1 year ago
If they would promise me that Scarborough Fair would always sound like this I would go there and never leave.
Zenuen 1 year ago
I love this song.....sooooo beautiful!
Kiyoi24 1 year ago 2
Love it :) Thank you !
toddnevinsable 1 year ago
this might be the most beautiful song ever written
ARbd33 1 year ago 35
@ARbd33 yeah but he never wrote it, he copied it and copyrighted it as his own
TheMarkWaterson 11 months ago
Takes me back to a certain girl. I miss her.
millerbill2006 1 year ago
This is one of the only videos I've seen with no thumbs down. I'm glad. Very glad.
Tsusho1 1 year ago 2
is this scarbrough north yorkshire?
ranchuboy7 1 year ago
@ranchuboy7 na its scarborough on the helmand province
stevel1430 1 year ago
it is a good song but the 'backround' lyrics are very sad..it is talking about war and death, but itis still one of my fav songs so pretty
drew5392 1 year ago
I'm in college,east coast,winter day,cloudy and cold,snowing outside and this song is playing in someones room and filling the hall.
It's 1967...That's how I remember this song...and I always will.
I'm just instantly taken back to that very time when ever I hear it, what great memories. S&G were so much more than a musical group...
they represented a generation.
RTHinAZ 1 year ago 51
@RTHinAZ Thank You...You painted a perfect picture with your words...
I can really see it. I'm there.
ddr78759 1 year ago
@RTHinAZ that's awesome.....
jgraz42 1 year ago
@RTHinAZ hmmm i heard if you remember the 60s you werent there!
deohgesdad 1 year ago
@RTHinAZ It;s funny because the beginning description of where you "are" reminds me of their song "I Am A Rock".
IronCladLady8 1 year ago
@RTHinAZ How right you are! I was in college 66-70. S&G songs defined those years of my life. Sounds of Silence, The Boxer, Bridge OverTroubled Waters, Richard Cory, homeward Bound, etc. They are timeless. Given what passes for music nowadays, I feel so sorry for today's youth...
4325air 11 months ago 3
@4325air lol im 14 and i love hard core rock rap and all of them but this song is just so beautiful
Overdueabortion12 11 months ago
@Overdueabortion12 I don't understand how you can listen to something like this and then go back to stuff like that.
sterlingsilverf 11 months ago
@RTHinAZ Bloody hell, you are my hero mate, I wanna be just like you. lol
Really, I would love to "feel" this music in, well, anywhere in the USA. Sounds like an odd experience.
thicobrass 11 months ago
Scarborough fair ran for over five hundred years, from 1253 untill 1788
mickyp1960 1 year ago
Real classical music! S and G at their best!!
50Jantje 1 year ago
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ay dios mio que musica tan relajante, me encantan.
lolipop9245 1 year ago
Wonderful. There is no more things to say. Wonderful.
EmilieLouveSolitaire 1 year ago
the best song ever!
50Jantje 1 year ago
This song gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it.
CrazyOnMyOwnTerms 1 year ago
Bellissima canzone...e pensare che ho scoperto Simon e Garfunkel quasi per caso!!!! Dunque devo dire che il caso questa volta ha prodotto una buonissima cosa :)
FMercury92 1 year ago
Orosz Gabriella
Laceb01 1 year ago
such a wonderfully delicate song. i can think of no better song than this to be scraped of the jungle floor as the life gushes out of you than this.
theforgottenwork 1 year ago