The tune and lyrics date back to the Middle Ages. The herbs were mentioned for their spiritual meaning in medieval lore. Parsley was thought to remove bitter emotions. Sage was a symbol of wisdom and healing. Rosemary evoked remembrance, and was used to bless weddings with love and fidelity. Thyme was a symbol of courage and chivalry.

@afterlate8866

Жыл бұрын

Thank you; very interesting. I always thought this sounded Medieval. It is so nostalgic.

@RivetHead999

Жыл бұрын

The song is from the perspective of a man who has died (or is dying) knowing he’ll never return home, he says to tell his love to complete impossible tasks for him to return, and in the end mentions Heather (a flower where none bloom white near corpses nor graves) parsley sage rosemary and thyme are herbs all associated with the deceased and sometimes burned for blessings. More so in old traditions burned for passing from life into death, and we’re also used during the plague to protect from the disease. The song is quite dark and sad when you understand the context.

@seeadler3233

Жыл бұрын

If you believe that --- then you`re smoking too many herbs .

@BangkokVoiceCoach

Жыл бұрын

lovely

@KM-yn9fk

Жыл бұрын

❤

Someone said this song may be timeless but it’s certainly not thymeless

@didforlove

Ай бұрын

lmao

@CB-xr1eg

Ай бұрын

Must have been a very sage person who said that.

@Roohan-MusicChannel

Ай бұрын

lol

@talesdemidioful

Ай бұрын

best comment ever

@eddiepower3876

Ай бұрын

Brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

When I was in Vietnam, this music helped me survive.

@jennymulhall816

6 ай бұрын

I can’t imagine how surreal it must have been to listen to such beautiful music in the midst of what you lived through. My own nation was not involved, so I don’t know anyone who was there, but what I have seen on the television leads me to be glad that you are still here, and enjoying good music. I wish you well, Sir. ❤

@marcospadilla1793

5 ай бұрын

🙏🏾💪🏽

@justinmikulenka9588

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing that,.. and for your undeniable courage 🙏

@40173k

5 ай бұрын

God. That really got me.

@samanthaannbevens8612

5 ай бұрын

Ty so much for your service.

As a teenager my father suggested we watch The Graduate, we did and the music of S & G just blew me away. My father died two years ago today and I am listening to Scarborough Fair and thinking of him with tears in my eyes. Thanks Dad for all those things that you got right. I miss you..

@oscarcanero3460

11 ай бұрын

Beautiful words

@frankcascioli9289

11 ай бұрын

And with that, tears now in my eyes...

@deborahchesser7375

10 ай бұрын

@@frankcascioli9289mine as well

@carmonaangel84

10 ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss, just know you're stronger than a lot of people. There's always someone going through something worse, remember that

@GYoung-qw5uk

10 ай бұрын

My son is at the age of 20. I am not sure if I will suggest him to watch the movie. It seems there is too much adult content in the movie. I am not against his watching it. Yes, the music is fantastic.

This is so haunting. Those harmonies are just unreal.

@dmi210

8 жыл бұрын

I agree. "Haunting" is the right word to describe the melody. But I don't understand referencing parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Are they going to smoke it or roast a chicken?

@RSR012

7 жыл бұрын

Because it's not simply harmony. There is counterpoint-usually found in classical music, they somehow managed to incorporate not only melodic but also poetic counterpoint.

@andrewcabrera505

7 жыл бұрын

RSR012 can you explain a counterpoint in more detail it sounds interesting

@Gnomebe

7 жыл бұрын

"poly" harmonies all harmonizing. Very intricate harpsichord...many delicate harmonies harmonizing all at the same time.

@anthonydeville5976

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree. When Art Garfunkel starts wailing away so melancholy on the chorus I want to the swan that is here and gone.....

"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad about the Yorkshire town of Scarborough. The song relates the tale of a young man who instructs the listener to tell his former love to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished As the versions of the ballad known under the title "Scarborough Fair" are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is about the Great Plague of the late Middle Ages. Paul Simon learned the song in London in 1965 from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and included it on his eponymous 1965 album. Simon & Garfunkel set it in counterpoint with "Canticle"-a reworking of the lyrics from Simon's 1963 anti-war song, "The Side of a Hill", set to a new melody composed mainly by Art Garfunkel.

@Alejandro_87

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Aquino beautiful copy and paste job

@bellbookcandle3051

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Aquino Don't listen to that Overkill guy... he's just mad *he* never learned how to copy & paste.

@jamesvinson3998

5 жыл бұрын

@@bellbookcandle3051 Damn the general must have ordered you to shoot to kill like the soldiers being referenced in the song.

@nevittwoods1730

5 жыл бұрын

meet me at Grimsby fish market

@AndreasAltermann

5 жыл бұрын

I qoute you on facebook, but - do youself have a source ?

So beautiful. Since my son passed away in 2021, almost everyday songs from my past float into my mind songs from when my boy was alive. He was my first best friend, I miss him so so much. Sean Lee Phillips Aug 26, 1972-August 2, 2021. Rest in peace my son with the Holy Angels and Jesus Our King Forever. I Love You Forever.

@alexdumortier

10 ай бұрын

May you find comfort in the memories of time spent with him. Perhaps you will enjoy this cover of 'Scarborough Fair/ Canticle', which is the best I've found on KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eW2duKltm8qWo8o.html .

@maryheadley4853

9 ай бұрын

I am so sorry you lost your son, Suzanne. The shock of losing your son must be passing and the pleasant memories are coming back to greet you. I encouranage you to listen to more S&G.

@suzannephillips6236

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Mary for your kind response, it helps:)@@maryheadley4853

@JeriGillam

9 ай бұрын

Oh my God, I am so sorry. I cannot imagine your pain. :(

@Carla-of1lg

9 ай бұрын

My daughter was my best friend too.. .

I sang this to my small son, who died at 2. It calmed him

@mickjagger8439

10 ай бұрын

I am SO sorry. Life can be so cruel.

@missmiss6516

6 ай бұрын

May your sweet boy rest in perfect peace

@benkao8253

6 ай бұрын

Om Mani Padme Hum ❤️‍🩹🌈🌺

@CourtneyShumpert

5 ай бұрын

So sorry for your loss. Prayers 🙏❤️🙏

@annrodriguez2891

4 ай бұрын

❤ so sorry for your loss...

One of the most beautiful recordings ever made.

@RickMartinYouTube

7 жыл бұрын

can't argue that

@frankalexander512

6 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@derrickpowell5531

6 жыл бұрын

slide4180 I agree 1000%

@derrickpowell5531

6 жыл бұрын

There shounldnt be any dislikes to the great classic tune.

@waynestumbo6430

6 жыл бұрын

the best

When I was an introverted kid in 7th grade I listened to Simon & Garfunkel non-stop. This song intrigued me the most. I remember reading Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series for the first time while listening to S&G. They are forever entwined in my mind.

@susanrjecker9208

6 жыл бұрын

MerkinMuffly me too! I was reading The Lord of The Rings and becoming involved in the anti war movement.

@bellbookcandle3051

6 жыл бұрын

Susan R Jecker Me too! All the same stuff for me! Except for the part abt the movement... I was still a little too young to be anything but a wannabee activist. 🌼✌🇺🇸

@finnleason6916

5 жыл бұрын

MerkinMuffly and Susan R Jecker, I read LotR and The Unbeliever series around that age as well, and was active in the peace-making scene. Still am.

@oliver_reddy

5 жыл бұрын

I hope life is well for you bro. You have a friend in me

@PhillipDBole

5 жыл бұрын

I remember being their with you

Simon and Garfunkel were HUGE in the late 1960s when I was a college student. That their music has endured for 55 years is a testament to the beauty that they created.

@johncostello3174

Жыл бұрын

They can't stand the sight of each other . 😄

@TonyEnglandUK

10 ай бұрын

@@johncostello3174 lol fair point well made. And neither of them wrote this song anyway. 😄

@upturnedblousecollar5811

10 ай бұрын

Is there ever going to come a time when people realise Paul Simon did not write Scarborough Fair? The song is centuries old.

@jeremyd.2156

9 ай бұрын

It's the pot that lived on

@Dagger-5921

8 ай бұрын

damn, u still alive

Oh my the harmonies are like a shower of diamonds floating back to medieval britian. Gorgeous.

@TonyEnglandUK

4 ай бұрын

Written in England centuries ago, original lyrics are great to look up; _O, where are you going?_ *To Scarborough fair,* *Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme;* _Remember me to a lass who lives there,_ _For once she was a true love of mine._

@upturnedblousecollar5811

2 ай бұрын

@@TonyEnglandUK I love the word "lass"

@edistoisle4906

Ай бұрын

That England is no more...sadly...

Recorded in 1966 - over 50 years ago and it's still amazing today.

@glue3999

3 жыл бұрын

55 wow

@jonathanbirch2022

Жыл бұрын

And written over 300 years ago

@AadityaBhowmick

Жыл бұрын

dude the song was written in 1253 CE. its been about 769 years since it was written.

@donnaatienza8001

Жыл бұрын

It sure is it's breathtaking

@Ionabrodie69

Жыл бұрын

@@AadityaBhowmickNo it was written in the 1400s. 😊🇬🇧

I grew up with my parents singing this song and playing their acoustic guitars. My dad with the main part, my mom coming in with "canticle". It was an absolutely beautiful thing to experience, and listening to this now takes me right back to that time. Thank you for the memory, S & G.

@tobiasmurken8648

Жыл бұрын

or 7 O clock silent night

@svetlanashevtsova2711

Жыл бұрын

I wish I were you. True too

@IRonMan-kw2jp

Жыл бұрын

Awesome memories. You are blessed

@mickeymisa9350

Жыл бұрын

Bless you and your lovely parents. You were not lucky you were gifted. xxxxxxxxxx

@SUGAR_XYLER

11 ай бұрын

​​@@mickeymisa9350 Nobody in my family has any musical talent or taste. Anyway I'm trying to learn how to play the piano 🎹

Lyrics 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 (in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground) Without no seams nor needle work (Bedclothes the child of the mountain) Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call) Tell her to find me an acre of land (A sprinkling of leaves) Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears) Between the salt water and the sea strands (And polishes a gun) Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather (Blazing in scarlet battalions) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And gather it all in a bunch of heather (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, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine

@tkenglander6226

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for posting these!!

@rheahayes3149

Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR THE LYRICS 🎵🎶❤️🇨🇦

@anthony1087

Жыл бұрын

I never saw or really knew the lyrics of this beautiful song until now so thank you for sharing 💜

@bachouvenn3563

Жыл бұрын

This uses counterpoint and fugue-like structure so it’s really hard to write the lyrics, but you nailed it, thank you

@annwachira6565

Жыл бұрын

Wow, its all about sweet herbs

Still listening to this very beautiful bittersweet classic as of early 2024. And will certainly continue listening to it well beyond! All the best to anyone reading this!

@pamelad5677

5 ай бұрын

💖

@thematicnostalgia4106

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking in!

One of those songs where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first heard it. It's almost traumatic to experience something so beautiful for the first time.

@dana_s-tl5lc

6 жыл бұрын

WKA DESIGNS that is sooo true, I actually listened it 1y ago and I remeber where, when, and all lmao

@honeymellon11

5 жыл бұрын

I was painting a house haha. I didn't even realize that I remembered exactly when I first heard it until I read this

@geraldcozier3132

5 жыл бұрын

This is by far one of the true classics. Art Garfunkel also stands out as a master of his art.

@cezarypiatek2564

5 жыл бұрын

Laying in bed late at night with a true love of mine. Many years ago, she's long gone from my life now. She was like this song to me, getting straight to the depths of my soul, catching me entirely off-guard.

@rycolsonhold648

5 жыл бұрын

I was in music class learning music theory and the history of music.

One of the most beautiful recordings ever made. THIS is music.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

@jackmiller7324

Жыл бұрын

true

@lammieshipper

Жыл бұрын

THIS IS MUSIC!!!!

@cynthiamauck5918

Жыл бұрын

I fully agree!

@timothymcglynn1935

11 ай бұрын

🎉😮🎉😮🎉

‘And fight for a cause they’ve long ago forgotten’ A line so true in many ways

This is counterpoint, and why Baroque music was so profound.

before youtube...before MTV....before headphones were portable..my cassette player lulled me to sleep on many a air condition- free, humid , open window night... as the old oaks swayed to melody of my youth...

@Dapper_highlight

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Putzke beautifully said. Simpler times

@daBEAGLE1017

5 жыл бұрын

And yet we had it great. I miss those days

@robertraymond3681

5 жыл бұрын

This comment made me feel deeply sad, and nostalgic somehow for an era I've never known

@thegamingkid8224

3 жыл бұрын

holy shit dude.

@markwardel6751

3 жыл бұрын

You sir, are a poet.

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 (And 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.

@Jon-nk9tt

8 жыл бұрын

What purpose was there to type the lyrics to the song? Stupid fuck.

@CrazyTrained

8 жыл бұрын

Go fuck yourself

@lauryliepolito52

7 жыл бұрын

Thank You for sharing the Lyrics...

@merzougmerrouche8047

7 жыл бұрын

David Scalza c'est absolument fabuleux.je ne comprenais pas les paroles mais je planais

@JazzcrankMYFHC

7 жыл бұрын

The lyrics are in the description bug you wrote it out in order so I thank you for that.

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] Tell her to make me a cambric shirt _On the side of a hill, in the deep forest green_ Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme _Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground_ Without no seams nor needle work _Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain_ Then she'll be a true love of mine _Sleeps unaware of the clarion call_ [Verse 3] Tell her to find me an acre of land _On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves_ Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme _Washes the grave with silvery tears_ Between the salt water and the sea strands _A soldier cleans and polishes a gun_ Then she'll be a true love of mine [Verse 4] Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather _War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions_ Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme _Generals order their soldiers to kill_ And gather it all in a bunch of heather _And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten_ Then she'll be a true love of mine [Verse 5] 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

@ProfessorChomsky

2 ай бұрын

Cheers for the lyrics our kid x

@thecamokidstevenellison

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for posting the lyrics! My wife passed away almost a year ago and I'm devastatingly lonely. Have Metastasized Cancer but still alive. This song is given to me, along with other songs, by most of my ex girlfriends and my ex wife. I want someone new though. I'm doing it to myself. I know.

Makes me want to cry,about what i wasted in youth never to regained.

@richardtitzmann3217

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you, at 64yo I wasted a lot😪

@linsqopiring6816

Ай бұрын

@@richardtitzmann3217 Thank goodness. If we didn't become smarter what would there be to look forward to in old age.

@juliearndt6471

Ай бұрын

😢

@thecamokidstevenellison

Ай бұрын

I'm so sad right now. I truly know how y'all feel.

This is a song that makes you stop doing whatever you're doing and just sit still and listen, letting yourself be completely drawn into the music and singing. That last stanza always stuns me, when they ask for the last time: "Are you going to Scarborough Fair".

@andrewcabrera505

7 жыл бұрын

calvin777100 So true I can't do anything else while listening

@malovela

4 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing. I very rarely do nothing else while listening to music, but I just found myself lying still with my hands folded on my chest and my eyes closed the whole way through.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

@kateorourke2271

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Even all these years since they sang this song it still runs through my head. It's now 2022.

@TheMonkey747

Жыл бұрын

I listened to this as I carved a relatively simple flower in relief.

The Graduate...and the scenes of Benjamin driving his red alfa romeo spider.... crossing the Oakland Bay Bridge heading to Berkeley to find Elaine... Great Movie, Great Soundtrack....

@HhappyBirthday

9 жыл бұрын

Joseph Arce From memory; he was driving, not the most direct route, Joseph.

@Dave-wt8xg

4 жыл бұрын

Once you see that film you never forget the film or the music timeless and brilliant.Nothing like it has or ever will be made again.

@ToastingInEpicBread

4 жыл бұрын

one of the coolest helicopter shots

@johnlanelli3968

4 жыл бұрын

Love that montage in the movie.

@jodywilke4642

4 жыл бұрын

That was a stupid movie.😒

小さい頃に聴いていた時はただ単に市場の歌だと思っていました。 この世から戦争がなくなる事を願います。

@goldilox369

5 ай бұрын

I did too when I was young.

@user-sf9cm9tt7c

Ай бұрын

@@goldilox369

How can so much grace and beauty fit into 3 minutes? It's simply unreal.

HOW, HOW, HOW can anyone dislike this masterpiece of transporting beauty? Layering the two songs is a stroke of musical genius which awes me every time I listen.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

@brianfugate2822

Жыл бұрын

Anybody don't like this song must be musically confused

@drummerboi74136

Жыл бұрын

HOW OLD ARE YOU? 90.

@nickburton7897

Жыл бұрын

@@drummerboi74136 She's right. how can anyone dislike a musical master piece?

@shedninjareal

Жыл бұрын

​@@drummerboi74136 older then you i would say 20's

I love how they're harmony goes out of sync but is still harmonic. I love it when people do that. It eventually just goes back into sync.

@tonyatkinson566

9 жыл бұрын

+Haley Palmquist That's the beauty of harmony, Haley, and you're absolutely right!

@cody7445

5 жыл бұрын

@Clara J Not canon in this case, just counterpoint. Canon is when both parts are the same and start at different times, therefore overlapping.

@sabinewei3041

4 жыл бұрын

😍❤❤

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

@ammaleslie509

2 жыл бұрын

when you say their "harmony goes out of sync" are you referring to syncopation? syncopated time was an S&G trademark. they even mention the technique by name in "The Dangling Conversation": like a poem poorly written / we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme / in syncopated time kzread.info/dash/bejne/loV8xLNpiMqpgrA.html

Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English folk song from the Middle Ages, referring to an old fair in Scarborough, Yorkshire. It is a market fair, comprising of traders, merchants and other vendors that started sometime in the 14th century until the 18th century.

A haunting rendition of a beautiful ancient folk ballad

My choir teacher is having me do a solo for choir this year and this is the song he is having me sing. I absolutely love it!!

@sofiaoltremare6232

6 ай бұрын

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤗🤗🤗🙆🏻‍♀️🍀🌷🍀🌷🙋🏻‍♀️🎶🎵

@thematicnostalgia4106

4 ай бұрын

TY Shelby

@coriander9770

4 ай бұрын

this is like an honour :D congrats! i suggested it to my choir teacher and she was like "OMG I LOVE IT" so now we're singing it for our spring concert!!

@lovedaybebe5881

4 ай бұрын

How wonderful 🙏🏻 what a beautiful song to sing !

My daughter's high school Chorus class won a Superior Music Award 04/2023 for performing this beautiful song at a Music Festival in South Carolina. It's an absolute Masterpiece, and to hear children performing this song with such dedication and passion in 2023 is just unbelievable. Gives you hope in a generation of music, that isn't worthy of even calling music.

@sarahm.4926

Жыл бұрын

Oh I bet a chorus version of this sounds like angels in a glass jar ❤❤❤

@lauraland169

Жыл бұрын

Wish I could hear their version of this great song!

@paulaskeete1243

7 ай бұрын

It's an old English folk song and is over 800 years old.

@Abe-wy7ct

Ай бұрын

Beautiful. It brings back memories

The most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard.

1966 Just out of hi school, I drove to in my Low Rider Ford Starliner from the San Fernando Valley... Los Angeles... to San Francisco to check out the Hippy Movement... wow, what a life I have had and continue to have. Beautiful music

simon and garfunkel,Beach boys,The Beatles,The Mamas and The Papas,Crosby,Stills and Nash raised me to be a human being.Harmony.

We are generation of love, death and it's never ending. Peace people. Life is to short for all of us.

@upturnedblousecollar5811

2 ай бұрын

Or too long, depending on your situation.

@emperor5321

2 ай бұрын

@@upturnedblousecollar5811 peace man. Perfect. I try to stay. Ever forever. Love waits .

Part of their art in this version is that the voices of the singers are totally intertwined. In the beginning only Garfunkel sings (double-tracked), then Simon joins in (probably also double-tracked) with the lower harmony. Then, for the war song (the 'Canticle') starting at the second stanza, they take turns, Simon singing the lower sections, Garfunkel the higher ones. We hear approx. three Paul Simons and three Art Garfunkels singing in this song. But as their performances are so accurate and their voices blend so beautifully, this is barely noticeable.

@savedbyzero3554

3 жыл бұрын

The Engineering is described in one word........................, (MASTERPIECE)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Recorded in 1966, when I was only 13. I'm 70 now. It always reminded of me of my college years in the early 1970s. I had fond memories of first girlfriends, who had slipped away from me, as time moved on. Short, sweet love affairs, that faded into the the mist.

@doctorbohr1585

3 ай бұрын

You're a lucky man. I only had one first girlfriend.

@Davett53

3 ай бұрын

@@doctorbohr1585 Thanks. Thinking back to before that time,.....I had no girlfriends in high school. In college I pursued two gals, one at a time. The second one, was a more serious relationship, and more complicated, as time went on. I was blinded by my lust,....and ignored the signs, that basically we were from two different worlds. She grew up in a rural world, and myself a suburban world. Our differences is what first drew me to her. We were both artists, seeking our art degrees, we both worked in the same medium, Printmaking. I'm grateful we exchanged our art prints, back then. I cherish the prints she created and gave to me. 30 years after our relationship had dissolved, I learned she was killed in a car accident.

Who’s still here 2024.

@johnstone7785

Ай бұрын

I am. Been here since '66

@ruthlester-scott7572

Ай бұрын

Love this song... especially sung by this phenomenal duo ❤

@jamesklein9255

Ай бұрын

I am - the years have made me even more so ...

@TochukwuBenjamin-xz6ic

Ай бұрын

🌚👌👌

@dexterbonaparte8163

Ай бұрын

Meeeeee, I love this song

Who's listening to this hauntingly beautiful song in 2020? Yeah, me neither, but soon, very soon ...

@whoisit01

4 жыл бұрын

Me! Finally. 2020 What a year. Halfway through it, & this song's gonna get me through the 2nd half!

@Hippy2021

4 жыл бұрын

@@whoisit01 me too. The good old time when I was in Vietnam and a teen in highschool and living through the war. Bring back good memories .

@chainsawmack

4 жыл бұрын

If you dint mind could you describe what you remember?

@Benizzor

3 жыл бұрын

Haha welcome.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

I was 18 back in Holland,i bought this on single and played time after time,now i,m 71 and still enyoying it,the most positiv is that my children even love this!

this song reminds of my deceased father. He loved it. Miss him

Perfect arrangement, playing, vocals and production. Its beauty has never been lost over the years.

Kocham tą balladę pełną nostalgii, majestatu, uduchowienia.

They wrote so many great songs but this one is timeless and magical.

@jamesrobert4106

Жыл бұрын

The only wrongdoing was Simon not crediting Martin Carthy for many decades.

@georget13

Жыл бұрын

Their rendering is magical, but they didn’t compose it. It’s a traditional English ballad. I love it

@TonyEnglandUK

10 ай бұрын

Scarborough Fair was written in England hundreds of years before Simon and Garfunkel were born.

@drrockkso8882

9 ай бұрын

​​@jamesrobert4106 Carthy didn't write this song. No one did, really. It's a traditional English folk ballad that's existed in various forms since the middle ages. It doesn't have a single author, and whoever developed the early versions of it are lost to time.

There is a spiritual glow around this song

It's a very (very) old song from England. You should look up the history of the song it really is fascinating.

@backinashT64

9 жыл бұрын

I just saw "the graduate" (D.Hofmann ) where the song is played, so i've read on Wiki that it was an old love and romantic english song of the middle age, very nice ! from France

@backinashT64

9 жыл бұрын

+Artificial Intelligence I am not as sure as you seem to be. " many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is about the Great Plague of the late Middle Ages."(wiki)

@monroe91059

8 жыл бұрын

+Ariel Burdett I remember when I used to say the same thing. One generation too the next. You will hear it soon enough.

@stuartthorne4171

8 жыл бұрын

+Artificial Intelligence I dont know mate, it's about the plague times and I think it dated before Henry the eighths time.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

One of the most beautiful recordings ever made. THIS is music. Hauntingly beautiful... One of the most beautiful recordings ever made.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

The herbs parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme are mentioned in the refrain of the English ballad “Scarborough Fair”. The song is about a couple who are given seemingly impossible tasks to be together, and the herbs are included to reference the strengths that were thought to be associated with them at the time. The song dates back at least to the mid-17th century, and versions of its riddling quarrel between lovers setting each other impossible tasks feature prominently in the Child Ballads, songs anthologized in the 19th century by Francis James Child. Ewan MacColl recorded a dour version in 1957.

@MarkVA-nb2ds

Күн бұрын

Thanks!

This was the very first song I played on the piano at 3 years old. A stripped down melody only version of course. My older sister, was practicing from a beginners book. As soon as she had stopped, I hopped up on the bench and played it by ear. After that, my parents were like "ok, we've got to get this one into lessons now", and they did with a wonderful, professional, educational, very intellectual woman that continued to teach me for 15 years. She is an amazing musician who noted both my flaws and talents with truth. She had me in the breakdown of keys, chords and a very accomplished, runs and glissando type style playing, triad inversion musical theory at around 4-5 grade, which is unheard of. She saw something in me most don't. I have the utmost respect for her, and I always will. ❤️

They truly set the bar for future artists.

Love these soft kind of songs. Almost feel like your in a field of flowers with cool breezes flowing through cooling off the early summer heat.

@poom641

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Always seems time to forget about all negative things when this plays

@RivetHead999

Жыл бұрын

It’s actually a sad song about death and never returning home. The song is from the perspective of a man who has died (or is dying) knowing he’ll never return home, he says to tell his love to complete impossible tasks for him to return, and in the end mentions Heather (a flower where none bloom white near corpses nor graves) parsley sage rosemary and thyme are herbs all associated with the deceased and sometimes burned for blessings. More so in old traditions burned for passing from life into death, and we’re also used during the plague to protect from the disease. The song is quite dark and sad when you understand the context.

@soumyadeepgupta3861

Жыл бұрын

You will also enjoy Mushoku Tensei OSTs. They are all in Japanesse and sound so beautifful. Another one of my favorite soft song is "Tabi no Tochuu" Spice and wolf OP. Mystery of Love is also good.

Everyone needs to remember that we were coming out of Vietnam. We wanted peace and quiet. That's what S&G gave us. I'll love them forever .

Traditional English folk song, which was taught to Paul Simon (including the fabulous guitar accompaniment) by singer Martin Carthy when Paul was in England.

Pure MAGIC! The ethereal melodic sublime sounds of this song transports me into an other-worldly dreamy state of consciousness that no other song ever has.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

Song of soul, which hepled me to overcome poverty and injury of ny childhood. Thanks lot S&G

@free322001

9 жыл бұрын

Music is great medicine.

@AJTwo

9 жыл бұрын

So many of us had a song or songs we listened to to get us through the hard points.

@tomsadzewicz1776

9 жыл бұрын

I agree! I feel much better when I listen to music. music is awesome.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

Just love how this is used in The Graduate. What a magical song.

Between impeccable harmonizing, the harpsichord & layers ... it's hard to imagine this could've been more perfect.

*This makes me want to put on a flower crown and renaissance dress and let my curls down, and just spin*

@Edward-lf7ms

4 жыл бұрын

If you do.....put it on youtube.......ok?

@gustavopaes2879

4 жыл бұрын

Midsommar

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

@Ri57490

2 жыл бұрын

@@Edward-lf7ms you want to watch someone spinning? Weird

@Edward-lf7ms

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ri57490 I want watch HER spin....yep.

This is a very olde Traditional song from the North East Of England some 250 miles North of London. Along with other classmates, I used to sing this out loud during my school days. That was many years ago and long before the song became an International hit! S & G should have credited that fact!

@TonyEnglandUK

Ай бұрын

I remember Paul Simon apologising for not stating this wasn't his own work and saying he didn't realise he had to do that if it was a traditional song. I'm sure he was being genuine, I don't doubt his sincerity.

Mum used to sing me to sleep with this song, this song has a special place in my heart

Truly one of the most beautiful haunting songs ever it takes you back in time

So beautiful...makes me cry. Glad I lived during the musical and cultural renaissance.

@jackmiller7324

Жыл бұрын

no u dont

@donnaatienza8001

Жыл бұрын

Me too and I've cried many times when listening to this beautiful song.

I am a 56 years old brazilian, and I've been listening ang loving Simon and Garfunkel songs for the last 35 years. I still cry after some songs. They brings me my deeper emotions. Looks like I was in NY with them while them composed. I 've never been in US and never been with them but they will be with me till the end. Thanks Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

I live in Scarborough and this is always blasting out speakers at the BBQ

@thecamokidstevenellison

Ай бұрын

I bet that is such an awesome experience!!! I would love to be there listening to it! Hello from Arkansas, and I'll blast it at my next Barbeque!!!

When I was early in my teens, maybe even 12, my friend Greer had come to me raving about his new favorite "rock group", Simon and Garfunkel. It really didn't occur to me until years later that Greer had loved Simon and Garfunkel because Greer's last name was Scarborough. Lol Still, an awesome duo who's beautiful poetry had carried me through many times in my life.

The harpsichord and the bells add to the ancient feel of Scarborough Fair. The Canticle sort of slips and slides around the main melody. Have any two men's voices ever blended together so well?

@netzahuacoyotl

7 жыл бұрын

rmf141 Everly Brothers

@beavis4play

5 жыл бұрын

yea - crosby stills and nash . it's 3 guys but the point stands.

@jadentrestrail5398

4 жыл бұрын

Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley. Unreal vocal harmonies.

@argeraint

4 жыл бұрын

Paul McCartney and John Lennon

@SEAhawkstwelfthman

4 жыл бұрын

@@jadentrestrail5398 I was about to post that myself. Glad I didn't need to. Perfect harmonies.

This song makes me feel so nostalgic about a place I've never been to, a time I can never experience, people I can never meet..As I listened to it, I pictured a medieval-era bard sitting in the back of an cart singing and playing with a group at night, warmed by a crackling wildfire under a canopy of stars. The ox are resting, munching on grass, after a long day while the children are running around, excited to see the Scarborough Fair.

@tubby4388

Жыл бұрын

You are truly a conduit of the multiverse.

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 (in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground) Without no seams nor needle work (Bedclothes the child of the mountain) Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call) Tell her to find me an acre of land (A sprinkling of leaves) Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears) Between the salt water and the sea strands (And polishes a gun) Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather (Blazing in scarlet battalions) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And gather it all in a bunch of heather (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, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine - from google

Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. My favourite place in the world

@TonyEnglandUK

Ай бұрын

and mine!

The reason why it was the time. These guys made it magical, medieval, beautiful ❤️

I love that these herbs work together both symbolically, and in actuality. One of my favorite dishes is to combine Parsley, Sage Rosemary, and Thyme with mushrooms, rice, wild rice and peas.

I Love Simon & Garfunkel😍😍❤️❤️

This song reminds me of a true love I once had . The music is a sweet kiss from my beloved from many years ago, my sweet sweet lee, smile that launched a thousand stars into the sky and lips that could make you forget you needed to breath ... thank you S&G ....

One of the greatest musicians of all time!

@malovela

4 жыл бұрын

Two! :)

Closed my eyes, and chose a song to learn on guitar. I’ve never heard this song so I just made it fun by playing it randomly with the chords and lyrics I was given. I had no clue this song was so mystical and magical. I feel as though I am a fairy in a magical forest. Wow.

@llywelyngruffydd8474

2 жыл бұрын

Requires a capo

@jamesrobert4106

Жыл бұрын

@@llywelyngruffydd8474 On the 7th, like Here comes the sun. 👍

Makes me cry all the time it reminds me of how alone I am

Whenever I hear this song, I thank my Creator that I have ears to hear pure beauty of song, musicianship, harmony, Imagination, tenderness and strength of impeccable flowing movement towards something Divine. An impossible but real achievement on the earth.

@christinatrahin2103

Жыл бұрын

Love this.. God have people the gift to understand him through music

@anastasiaausten8179

11 ай бұрын

Beautiful sentiment

@nealluczkiewicz6846

11 ай бұрын

@@christinatrahin2103 Thank you - we are all connected, especially with beauty.

@nealluczkiewicz6846

11 ай бұрын

@@anastasiaausten8179 Thank you. I so appreciate your kindness in sharing your beautiful sentiment. This world can be a lonely place, especially when so many miss the wonder and beauty of it. Your comment is a brilliant spark of light for me!

Honor them by buying their albums, i did it. Thanks folks, you guys are amazing!!!

Born in January of '68. I was truly blessed to be born in a time of great artists who produced the most wonderful music ever heard. I listen to everything from folk jazz, blues, country, rock,heavy metal, & punk. Music feeds my soul.

@linsqopiring6816

Ай бұрын

Better to have youtube or spotify where you can listen to genres from all ages.

Dear God All my dreams were burned to ash My bright wondrous beautiful dreams They took and broke into a million pieces

They are still a couple of alchemists. I can't believe the magic it works after so many years... like being in a mystical celtic forest

@naturalianoss

10 ай бұрын

Celtic Frost

@somosunmicrouniversodentro1401

10 ай бұрын

@@naturalianossINDEED!!!

The last time they sing "Thyme"; the harmonies make me burst out crying.

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

Let’s just admire that these kinds are some of the only KZread music channel without blocked comments (Edited plurals coz some more classic bands ive seen have comments)

If only the world could chill and listen. Just so fkn peaceful

I remember my childhood. Every night, before we go to bed, my parents listened to Garfunkel and Simon with our old cassette player which still works today. What beautiful memories.

There are many singers and bands sing thí song , but just Simon & Garfunkel sing the "Canticle" of the song. This is why I prefer this version to many other different versions.

This song will be with me when I return to God's place forever.

I sometimes sense we fail to appreciate the depth of meaning in Paul Simon's writing. But wow this song has it all. Exquisite harmonies, and the interplay of two equally hearwrenching melodies. Combine their angel voices. I always have to wipe my tears after their songs. Particularly this and Bridge Over Troubled Water. 💜

@drrockkso8882

9 ай бұрын

He didn't write this.

@BarbaraPryor-Smith

9 ай бұрын

@@drrockkso8882 it's true. The original canticle Simon did not write but the harmonic melody behind it he did, to share through the haunting verses the blight and tragedy of war.

They don't make music this way anymore. That needs to change. How beautiful is this pure and unadulterated sound? Pre dating auto tune... real deal blending harmonizing and dynamics

@thefobbie0034

3 ай бұрын

Well considering this version was released in 1966 - Vietnam, space race, civil rights movement led by Rev King, anti war protests on campuses in America, the Beatles, the hippie and bohemian movements - year before summer of love - cold war, ... this pure and unadulterated sound you refer to is the reflection of that time! Beautiful and chaotic!

Hauntingly beautiful...

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

Sometimes, when I am listening to this, I recall my loved ones who have passed and it makes me cry, but the music is so beautiful, it is not a bad thing.

@maecarpenter6735

Жыл бұрын

Do not cry, or cry if you like, but remember all that made them close to you. Remember them as they lived, as they breathed, as they loved and laughed. Make them alive again from your heart!

So very Medieval in sound and imagery. The question asked throughout is so eeringly haunting: Are you going to Scarborough Fair? I have never heard anything else like it. Whenever and wherever I hear it, I stop and listen until it ends.

@drrockkso8882

9 ай бұрын

The song is literally from the medieval era. It's a traditional English folk ballad that's existed in various forms since at least the 13th century.

I am listening to this IN Scarborough

@thematicnostalgia4106

4 ай бұрын

WOW!!

@TonyEnglandUK

4 ай бұрын

No, you're listening to it in a DIFFERENT Scarborough.

@johncostello3174

4 ай бұрын

@@TonyEnglandUK No I'm not. I'm in Scarborough, Yorkshire. it's an old English song about an old English town

@TonyEnglandUK

4 ай бұрын

@@johncostello3174 With the American flag in your profile pic.

@johncostello3174

4 ай бұрын

Yep. means nothing@@TonyEnglandUK

Simple -- two voices and a guitar, with no big production. Quiet and lovely accompaniment. Flawless.

@ammaleslie509

2 жыл бұрын

and a harpsichord--don't forget the harpsichord! and the BELLS

This album (Parsely, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme) was released in 1966. I sold Platinum in both the U.S. and Canada.

@jakiebourg3229

8 жыл бұрын

+Lengo67 Impressive!

@MrJohanGuzman

8 жыл бұрын

+Lengo67 Sir, I respectfully wonder what possible relation can be had between the album's release and you selling platinum in North America.

@Orgastics

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrJohanGuzman I think he forgot a "T" I think he men to say, "It" instead of "I". 👌🙏🤣

@TheFolkRevivalProject

3 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a video on the history of Scarborough Fair which will answer many common questions and correct some misconceptions! The video includes over 30 traditional recordings of variants of the ballad, and discusses the actual origin of the famous melody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5igqsl_qMfVdto.html

@CelestialDraconis

2 жыл бұрын

@@Orgastics I find it ironic that you're correcting Lengo67's spelling mistake of missing a letter, while also forgetting the 'a' and 't' in meant. I think you meant to say 'meant' instead of 'men'. xD

I don't care. They have the best harmony I have ever heard. Music today is absolutely nothing compared to these 2 men

My older sister had this album in 1968. I'm transported back to that time and place, every time I hear this beautiful song.