Scarborough Fair

Scarborough Fair is well known from the Simon and Garfunkel recording, but here is a fuller set of words. They are based on a version published in the Northumbrian Minstrelsy as "Whittingham Fair" (Whittingham is a village in Northumberland). The chords are for the tune as sung by Simon and Garfunkel who, in turn, got it from Martin Carthy. I give the chords as for a ukulele tuned to the standard GCEA but on my recording on You Tube I actually sing it a tone higher and accompany myself on a ukulele tuned ADF#B.

Chords used in this song

Are you [Dm] going to [C] Scarborough [Dm] Fair

Parsley, [F] sage, rose[G7]mary, and [Dm] thyme

Remember [F] me to one who lives [C] there

For [Dm] once she [C] was a true love of [Dm] mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt...

Without any seam or fine needlework..

Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well

Where water ne'er sprung nor drop of rain fell

Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn

Which never bore blossom since Adam was born

Now he has asked me questions three

I hope he will answer as many for me

Oh, will you find me an acre of land

Between the sea foam and the sea sand

Oh, will you plow it with a lamb's horn

And sow it all over with one peppercorn

Oh, will you reap it with a sickle of leather

And tie it all up with a peacock's feather

And when he has done and finished his work

O tell him to come and he'll have his shirt