Scarborough Fair

X:6
T:Scarborough Fair
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Flanders and Brown, 1931, pp. 194-96.  Sung by Ola Leonard
O:(Mrs Ivan W.) Gray, East Calais, Vt., from family tradition.
O:Collected by Sylvia Bliss, Plainfield, Vt.  From "Vermont
O:Folk Songs and Ballads", edited by Helen Hartness Flanders
O:and George Brown; Copyright 1931 by Arthur Wallace Peach.
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G % Hexatonic ( -6) irregular
G | GGG Bdd | BAB d2 z |
w:Oh where are you go-ing? I'm go-ing to Lynn,
GGG B2 d | B3 d2 z | GGG Bdd | BAB d2 B |
w:Fel-low ma la cus lome-ly.  Give my res-pects to the la-dy there-in, Ma
dcB dcB | AAA ABc | BAB d2 F | A3 G2 |]
w:ke ta lo, ke ta lo, tam pa lo, tam pa lo, Fel-low ma la cus lome-ly.
W:
W:"Oh where are you going?" "I'm going to Lynn,"
W:Fellow ma la cus lomely.
W:"Give my respects to the lady therein,
W:Ma-ke-ta-lo, ke-ta-lo, tam-pa-lo, tam-pa-lo,
W:Fellow ma la cus lomely.
W:
W:Tell her to buy me a yard of cloth,
W:And make me a cambric shirt thereof.
W:
W:Tell her to make it with a gold ring,
W:Stitch it and sew it without a seam.
W:
W:Tell her to wash it in yonder well,
W:Where never a drop of water yet fell.
W:
W:Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,
W:That never was rooted since Adam was born.
W:
W:"Oh where are you going?" "I'm going to Japan,
W:Give my respects to this same young man.
W:
W:Tell him to buy me an acre of land,
W:Between the salt sea and the sea sand.
W:
W:Tell him to plow it with a deer's horn,
W:Sow it all over with one peppercorn.
W:
W:Tell him to reap it with a sea fowl's quill,
W:Tan it all up into an eggshell.
W:
W:And when he has completed his work,
W:Come onto me and he shall have his shirt.