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Scarborough Fair

Irish Traditional

A young man asks a passer-by on his way to the market in Scarborough: „are you going to Scarborough Fair?... Tell [my beloved] to make me a cambric shirt…Without a seam or needle work… Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well… Then she’ll be a true love of mine.“
The woman responds in kind: „traveller, ask him to find an acre of land...between the salt water and the sea strand“. Should he succeed then he would receive his seamless shirt... The moral of the story: Love imposes impossible tasks. (arr.: Euwe de Jong)

S/A/Brt/2 harmoniums
S/A/Brt/2 piano's
S/A/Brt/piano/violin (G - g3)
Other combinations? mail to Sybolt de Jong for possibilities and prices.

Irish Traditional

Man
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
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seams nor needle work;
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Woman
Tell him to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand;
Then he'll be a true love of mine.

Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And tie up the shaves with a rope made of heather;
Then he'll be a true love of mine.

Both
"Love imposes impossible tasks,"
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
"Though never more than your own heart asks,
And I must know you're a true love of mine".

Dear, when thou hast finished thy task,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Come to me, my hand for to ask,
For then thou art a true love of mine.

Lauren Armishaw, soprano
Rienk de Jong, countertenor - Elbert de Jong, baritone
Euwe & Sybolt de Jong, harmonium > order cd

1 - 10: € 5,= per arr. / 11 - 20: € 4,= per arr. / 21 <: € 3,50 per arr.

The arrangement (PDF) and invoice will be sent by mail.
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