[Verse 1]
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair
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Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
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Remember me to one who lives there
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She once was a true love of mine
[Verse 2]
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Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
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Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested brown)
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Without no seams nor nee-ee-dle work
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
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Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
[Verse 3]
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Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
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Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Washes the grave - with silvery tears)
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Between the salt water and the sea strands
(A soldier cleans - and polishes a gun)
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Then she'll be a true love of mine
[Verse 4]
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Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
(War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions)
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Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
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And gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause - they've long-ago forgotten)
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Then she'll be a true love of mine
[Verse 5]
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair
D# Cm D# F Cm
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Cm D# D# A#/D Cm A#
Remember me to one who lives there
Cm A# Cm
She once was a true love of mine