Scarborough Fair, Ballad of the Elfin Knight

An old Scots traditional tune played by Shaun-Patrick O. Young on his harmonica during the Night with the Keltic Dead performance in March 2009 in Allen, Texas. He is supported by Mark Kenneth (accordion), David Sparks (guitar), and Earnie Taft (mandolin, violin). The show was sponsored by the Allen Public Library Cultural Society for promoting an interest in Celtic music. This tune was popular in the sixties and one of the Child Ballads, "Ballad of the Elfin Knight," also more popularly known as "Scarborough Faire." For this and other traditional Celtic tunes arranged for the diatonic harmonicas visit http://www.kelticdead.com .

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• Elfin Knight
• Scarborough Fair
• Scarborough Faire
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• Shaun-Patrick Young
• Mark Kenneth
• David Sparks
• Earnie Taft

[nandho5]

The song start just in 1:33...!!!

[KelticDead]

And it was worth the wait wasn't it? It was a nice show. Shudda been there.

[KelticDead]

History is more often inspiration than fact. This is true even in one life and much more so through many lives through time. I like the "Scarborough Faire" "inspired" version, as do a lot of other folk as well. If one were to examine the Child Ballads there are many, many, versions of the Elfin Knight tale. Which one came from where or by whom falls into the noise level. Hope folk enjoyed our playing of the tune. It's still fun.

[BrightBlueShoe]

Read the book Impossible by Nancy Werlin, it's based off thius song.

Amazing song and book. :)

[KelticDead]

@BrightBlueShoe Hi Brittany. Thank you for interest in this style of music. We were asked to play for a Library initiative to help instill an interest Celtic music in our community. There's just something about this haunting tune that is timeless. Thanks. - - Shaun of the KelticDead

[HonestBloke]

Stupid dumb Americans.

Its an English song your retards, not Scottish.

[Nero5th]

@closertofiftythanyew the Elfin Knight is Scottish, Scarborough Fair is English

[TheTheTaylorSwiftFan]

@BrightBlueShoe I just read it in one day! it was amazing!!!

[nandho5]

@KelticDead Don't think so...

[closertofiftythanyew]

@parkin157

Contrary to our rulers in Westminster and so called brit oxbridge historical academics, too.

There is a whole load of brit history that is not taught nor mentioned, just because it is pre 1066 Norman rule. But gladly, things are changing, and people are looking into more for their own. People talk of Welsh language and it lost same languages like Cornish, Cumbric, but there was other forms of brythonic languages all over the country - West Sussex fot instance, around Chichester.

[parkin157]

@closertofiftythanyew Contrary to hollywood belief. if you were a native of northern britain in ancient times, from the humber to the forth you could have traversed that distance and not been aware of any cultural difference, those people are a mix of angles,cymru, frisians, gaels, and other northern celtic and germanic tribes and all the better for it