The "Scarborough Fair" Canticle:

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? (Parsley, sage, rosemary & 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)

  • Parsely, sage, rosemary & 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)

    Tell her to find me an acre of land (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)

  • Parsely, sage, rosemary, & 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

    Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)

  • Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill)
  • And to gather it all in a bunch of heather (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 & thyme
  • Remember me to one who lives there
  • She once was a true love of mine

    Today we have the "Naming of Parts"