Scarborough Fair

X:18
T:Scarborough Fair
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Kidson, 1891, pp. 43-44. Also, with piano accompaniment,
O:in Kidson, Kidson and Moffat, 1927, p. 30. Sung by a
O:street-singer, Whitby, Yorkshire, c. 1860.
N:Child 2
G:B
M:6/8
K:GMix % Hexatonic ( -7) Ionian/Mixolydian
D | GGG ABc | d2 d A3 |
w:Oh where are you go-ing?  To Scar-borough fair,
BBB cBA | GGE D2 D | G2 G ABc |
w:Sa-vou-ry sage_ rose-ma-ry, and thyme; Re-mem-ber me to a
ddd A2 B | c2 c cB A | DGG G2 |]
w:lass who lives there, For once she was a true love_ of mine.
W:
W:"Oh where are you going?" "To Scarborough fair,"
W:Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme;
W:"Remember me to a lass who lives there,
W:For once she was a true love of mine.
W:   (or "And then she shall be..." or "Or never be..." as appropriate)
W:
W:"And tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
W:Without any seam or needlework.
W:
W:"And tell her to wash it in yonder dry well,
W:Where no water sprung nor a drop of rain fell.
W:
W:"Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,
W:Which never bore blossom since Adam was born.
W:
W:"Oh will you find me an acre of land,
W:Between the sea foam, the sea sand.
W:
W:"Oh will you plough it with a ram's horn,
W:And sow it all over with one peppercorn.
W:
W:"Oh will you reap it with a sickle of leather,
W:And tie it all up with a peacock's feather.
W:
W:"And when you have done and finished your work,
W:You may come to me for your cambric shirt.

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