Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary & 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)
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)
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)
Parsely, sage, rosemary, & thyme
(Washed is the ground with so many 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 in a sickle of leather
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
(Generals order 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 & thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

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[cerisatay]

Seriously...it's a young man missing his home and loved one. Fighting a war he has no idea what it's about, scared,frightened to death about dying, wanting to go back to his simple days of youth and innocence. This is what (and more) our young people go through when thrown into fighting a battle someone else started!!!!!! Read between the lines...literally!!!

[canoftomatoes]

@InARealPickle who gives a fuck

[SpisUchmich]

@cerisatay actaully... no. it's about an old love, and he tells her what she has to do to get his love again. but all these things are actually impossible, so he is basically saying that she will never be his love again. By the way, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme were used for abortion in former days.

[lanceparker12]

A wonderful version of a VERY VERY old song, possibly the best version to date

[Imxoneofthefallen]

The end of The Wonder Years episode brought me here. xD

[9NightMare1]

The thing about all the impossible tasks the singer gives his loved one is, that he knows he will never be united with said loved one, hence he will only be with her once all these impossible tasks have been carried out. The old folk song also included a verse where he asks for his true love to ask for his hand, which was quite contrary to how courting was supposed to be back in the days when this song was first concieved, as it was the man's part to ask for a lady's hand.

[gr8721]

@722mhm What the heck is the interweb? Are you referring to the internet or is this some new fandangled gadget so that the government can control my lighting?

[gr8721]

@InARealPickle Wow! That is an awesome piece of useless knowledge! Except of course in a place like this. Bam! You just got some knowledge! It's awesome. Sometimes I wonder why I know stupid little things. It was for places like this. It makes it all interesting.

[atfatw]

@Incognote thats because your mom wasn't even born yet, when this album debuted

[Incognote]

My grandfather loved those two, even though I'm fifteen and a techno-electro lover, this music is just great. Sometimes I stop to wonder why wasn't I born several years before...

[slitor]

@cerisatay god damnit....first time I've actually studied the lyrics....now the song is just...haunted as fuck...

[Morall332]

Is it about someone asking to build his grave?