Scarborough Fair (ballad)
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Scarborough Fair (ballad)
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"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad. The song lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover who lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using Dorian mode, with refrains resembling "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" and "Then she'll be a true love of mine." It appears in Traditional Tunes by Frank Kidson published in 1891, who claims to
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Traditional English song
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)
date created:
2003-04-20T09:36:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:39:01Z
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