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Scarborough Fair
Paul Simon
Capo on 7th fret
Am Em Am
Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Am D Am
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
Am Am Em Am G
Remember me to one who lives there
G Am G Em Am
She Once was a true love of mine
Am Em Am
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Am D Am
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
Am Am Em Am G
Without Any seems nor needle work
G Am G Em Am
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Am Em Am
Tell her to find me an acre of land
Am D Am
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
Am Am Em Am G
Between the salt water and the sea strands
G Am G Em Am
Then she'll Be a true love of mine
Am Em Am
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
Am D Am
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
Am Am Em Am G
And Bind it all in a bunch of heather
G Am G Em Am
Then she'll Be a true love of mine
Am Em Am
Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Am D Am
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
Am Am Em Am G
Remember me to one who lives there
G Am G Em Am
She Once was a true love of mine
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Zack Wanna Be |
#1 by Zack Volm at Mar 24, 1970 at 7:04 PM EST |
| One of my favourites. Everytime I hear it, I just wanna hear it over and over and over again. To me that is a good song. | |
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Mike Average |
#2 by Mike at Oct 3, 1971 at 1:11 PM EST |
| my mam used to sing this all the time to me when i was little | |
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THE RONANATOR ( Average |
#3 by THE RONANATOR (aka.Ronan) downer at Oct 1, 1974 at 7:58 PM EST |
| "Scarborough Fair" itself is an old English folk song. Paul Simon added the countermelody and the extra words. | |
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TOm Wanna Be |
#4 by TOm HIrsch at Aug 7, 1979 at 4:50 AM EST |
| This song reminds me of my mother. She always made fried chicken using parsley, sage rosemary and thyme. I always wondered why it tasted so good. It was as good as this song. | |
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eric was here Professional Badass |
#5 by eric was here at Nov 13, 1980 at 12:15 AM EST |
| I agree with Guerillabaabaa's point about the impossible tasks he sets as a test. I don't know about the devil part though. I always loved this song, but as I got older, it made me smile thinking of all of the tasks men can be asked to perform to win the heart of their true love. Now the tables have turned and it's the woman who has to do all of the running around looking for a leather sickle to reap the acre of land that, lets face it, she's never going to find since it has to be an acre, and also has to fit in a bunch of heather!! All that whilst making this guy a shirt without any seams or needlework. I wonder if she thought about using wondaweb! | |
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Ŧøn¥ Average |
#6 by Ŧøn¥ PiNeDa at Dec 3, 1983 at 11:50 AM EST |
| Isn't this supposed to be an anti-war song? | |
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dann Average |
#7 by dann at Apr 14, 1984 at 4:06 PM EST |
| I love this song...it's just relaxing. If you're having a bad day, you can put this on and just reflect. It's so soothing. I love it! | |
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Chuck Average |
#8 by Chuck Norris at Dec 20, 1988 at 4:39 AM EST |
| Actually, it's not a homage to Dylan. Those words aren't even originally Dylan's, exactly. The line is from Scarborough Fair, a rather old folk song. In fact, the only lyrics of this song (actually titled "Scarborough Fair/Canticle") that actually belong to them are the ones in parentheses, the "canticle" part. The rest is just the folk song. As polkadot said, here is a very nice page with some insight to the meaning of the "Scarborough Fair" part of the song. http://www.geocities.com/paris/villa/3895/ This song wasn't a tribute; just another anti-war/war protest song. And a very pretty one, at that. | |
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KISS is the gre Average |
#9 by KISS is the greatest at Sep 21, 1989 at 12:23 AM EST |
| Well you have to give the proper ppl creidt for stuff. Simon wrote the words, for another song that never made the cut, but Art wrote the tune used for the Canticle. But man... mothers must know a good song to sing to their kids, becuase my mother would sing this to me and my sister when we went to bed too. | |
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sharon Wanna Be |
#10 by sharon howell at Sep 8, 1992 at 1:01 AM EST |
| it's just so pretty.... a really good song for "the graduate", too | |
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chris Wanna Be |
#11 by chris valverde at Aug 25, 1994 at 10:29 PM EST |
| my favorite simon and garfunkel song. i love the countermelody so much. | |
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Erik Lead Player |
#12 by Erik StJimmy at Aug 31, 1996 at 6:25 PM EST |
| the original scarborough fair was a song about witchcraft. more specifically: a man asks someone to remember him to a former lover who is a witch. the herbs: parsley, sage rosemary and thyme were associated with witchcraft. the man asks the witch to do impossible tasks like make him a shirt without any seams or find him an acre of land between the salt water and the sea strand (quite difficult if you think about it.) I don't know which war Paul Simon's referring to but it's a great song! | |
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Thomas Average |
#13 by Thomas Buckman at Sep 4, 1997 at 7:49 PM EST |
| the graduate owned. fave line.."she once was a true love of mine..." | |
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Toni Average |
#14 by Toni at Jul 14, 2002 at 7:23 AM EST |
| The first verse is a homage to Dylan's ' Girl From The North Country ' .... "Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine." They even place the line in the exact same place it first appears in Dylan's song. I'm not sure if the line impacts the song's meaning so much as it is merely placed there as a tribute to Bob. Interestingly enough, for those who feel this song ties in with anti-war or protest messages from the era, ' Girl From The North Country ', appears right before Dylan's ' Masters of War ' on his album Freewheelin', which remains to this day one of the most powerful statements against Vietnam. Of course that may be reading a little too much into Simon's tribute. Either way a clever little tip of the hat to Dylan, one of Simon's obvious influences. | |
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chris the pirat Lead Player |
#15 by chris the pirate. arr at Jul 25, 2004 at 1:01 PM EST |
| The "Canticle" section of the song is taken from another song that Paul Simon wrote, and was released on his album "Songbook". On The Side Of A Hill On the side of a hill in a land called somewhere A little boy lies asleep in the earth While down in the valley a cruel war rages And people forget what a child’s life is worth On the side of a hill, a little cloud weeps And waters the grave with its silent tears While a soldier cleans and polishes a gun That ended a life at the age of seven years And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they’ve long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill | |
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