Scarborough Fair
A Love Woven in Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
Lyrics
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Invitation to visit Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
List of herbs: Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
Sending regards to someone at Scarborough Fair
For she once was a true love of mine
Referring to a past lover
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Instructing to make a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Repetition of herb list
Without no seam nor needlework
Describing the shirt without seams or needlework
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Anticipating a renewed love after the shirt is made
Tell her to find me an acre of land
Requesting to find an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Repeating the herb list
Between the sea foam and over the sand
Describing the location of the land
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Anticipating renewed love after finding the land
Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn
Instructing to dry the land on a thorn
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Repeating the herb list
Which never bore blossom since Adam was born
Describing the thorn that never bore blossom
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Anticipating renewed love after the land is dried
When he got to the end of his work
Shift in perspective, possibly a new character introduced
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Repeating the herb list
And ask him to come for his cambric shirt
Asking someone to fetch the cambric shirt
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Anticipating renewed love after the shirt is fetched
Have you been to Scarborough Fair?
Revisiting the invitation to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Repeating the herb list
Remember me from one who lives there
Recalling a message from someone at Scarborough Fair
For she once was a true love of mine
Referring again to a past lover
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