Scarborough Fair - 祝大家周末愉快

儿子自己弹钢琴，我在厨房做菜。当我听了第一行，恍惚间觉得在哪里听过他在弹得曲子。真是略带忧伤的仙乐。

The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished. The melody is very typical of the middle English period.

 

       Scarborough Fair - English Folk Song

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.

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 the child of the mountain.

Then she'll be a true love of mine

- Sleeps unaware of the clarion call

Tell her to find me an acre of land

- On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme

- Washes 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.

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.

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