Singing: Sarah Brightman
Album: "La? Luna
Issue date: 2000
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Sage, rosemary and thyme.
Give my regards to the people who live there.
Take a message to a man who lives there.
She was my true love.
She used to be my true lover.
Tell her to make me a linen shirt.
Tell him to make me a linen tulle shirt.
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Sage, rosemary and thyme.
No seams, no unnecessary work
It must be done seamlessly.
Then she will be my true love.
Then she is the one I really love.
Tell her to find me on an acre of land.
Ask him to find me an acre of land.
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Sage, rosemary and thyme.
Between the sea and the coast
Between the sea and the coast
Then she will be my true love.
Then he is the one I really love.
Tell her to harvest with a sickle.
Ask her to harvest the crops with a sickle made of leather.
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Sage, rosemary and thyme.
Collect them into a bunch of heather.
Then collect them into a bunch of heather.
Then she will be my true love.
Then she is the one I really love.
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Sage, rosemary and thyme.
Give my regards to the people who live there.
Take a message to a man who lives there.
She was my true love.
She used to be my true lover.
Extended data:
Scarborough Fair was originally an ancient English folk song, and its origin can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Mccall, the father of English folk songs, was selected into a book about English folk songs edited by him.
Later, the British folk singer Martin Carthy added his own re-creation to the original song and turned it into a love song. Simon learned this song from Kathy in England. He creatively mixed his anti-war song "The Side of a Hill" with this song as a chorus.
The second sentence of Scarborough Fair sings about four kinds of flowers, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, which respectively represent the sweetness, strength, loyalty and courage of love.
At present, the most famous version of Scarborough Fair, that is, the theme song written by Simon and garfinkel for the movie The Graduate (surpassing the Beatles' white album and topping the list of best-selling songs in 1968), mainly uses a small part of the original "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme".