Scarborough Fair

1. Are you going to Scarborough Fair

parsley sage rosemary and thyme

remember me to one who lives there

she once was a true love of mine.

2. Tell her to make me a cambric shirt

on the side of a hill in the deep forest green

parsley sage rosemary and thyme

tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground

without no seams nor needlework

blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains

then she'll be a true love of mine

sleeps unaware of the clarion call.

3. Tell her to find me an acre of land

on the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves

parsley sage rosemary and thyme

washed is the ground with so many tears

between the salt water and the sea strand

a soldier cleans and polishes a gun

then she'll be a true love of mine.

4. Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather

war bellows blazing in scarlet battalions

parsley sage rosemary and thyme

generals order their soldiers to kill

and to gather it all in a bunch of heather

and to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten

then she'll be a true love of mine.

5.=1.