How to play Scarborough Fair (inspired by Gypsy Soul) - Sheila Kirsten Hughes

This is a tutorial for Gypsy Soul's version of "Scarborough Fair." They call it "True Love." It is not a tutorial for the Simon and Garfunkel version of the song.

If you'd like to see my performance of this song, click on the video response link "Scarborough Fair (inspired by Gypsy Soul) - Sheila Kirsten Hughes." just below the video window.

I've gotten a lot of requests for how to play this version of Scarborough Fair. This version is inspired by Gypsy Soul's version, known as "True Love." It's not exactly the same -- Roman, the guitarist for Gypsy Soul plays a lot fancier than I do -- but it's very similar. If you haven't heard their version, go to their website at www.gypsysoul.com and look for the song "True Love" on the album "The Journey." It's breathtaking. I believe you'll have to capo the guitar on the 3rd fret though to match their version.

Watch in "High Quality" for best results.
-Sheila

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• Scarborough
• Fair
• celtic
• style
• Gypsy
• Soul
• True
• Love
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[p4nd4man]

your voice is so gorgeous!!!

[skhughesband]

Thanks!

[pollyphil08]

Thanks Sheila:)This gave me something different to try!And this was a clear as a bell to me:)!

-Phil

[skhughesband]

Hey Phil! Sorry I didn't see this sooner. Thanks for watching the tutorial. That's very cool of you. I haven't been on YouTube much lately, so I'm behind on my replies. How are you doing? Still rockin' out?

[MarvinKatt]

Thank you! I really enjoyed the lesson and managed to play something I'm actually happy with. Thanks again.

[skhughesband]

Cool! Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching.

-Sheila

[diebunnie123]

it's not though. your putting the emphasis on the wrong bit. Ever been to Scarborough?

[myballwall]

Should give a preview at the beginning for ppl who have never heard this version, so they know what they are getting in to.... and then spend the rest of the 9 mins explaining it.

[KoalaTeaAkaKT]

As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, "Scarborough Fair" and the refrain "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot.

[KoalaTeaAkaKT]

The lyrics of "Scarborough Fair" appear to have something in common with an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2),[1] which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier

[KoalaTeaAkaKT]

As the versions of the ballad known under the title "Scarborough Fair" are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is a song about the Plague.

[KoalaTeaAkaKT]

The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.

[danboi2k11]

You seem to be a very smart and polite lady i really enjoy your tutorial great explenation of what chords you play great voice and guitarist

[prwatson701]

Hey Kirsten,

Thanks for the vid. I gotta tell you though, if you don't know some basic chords, you're not gonna try to play this song fingerpicking anyway.

[ballygb1]

@diebunnie123 My ex-girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it smelt, so I took her to Scarborough.

[xVandalsMessiahx]

No offense you play great and have a great voice but I wouldn't call this 'Celtic style' ...this sounds like a country version of the song ...its missing that trademark abrupt chord pinching and changes that characterize the medieval style and it needs a feeling of a back and forth bounce to make it sound Celtic...almost like in the Beatles version of a taste of honey which is a very similar song in its base form ....just felt a little misled on calling it celtic style.