Scarborough Fair with anti-war canticle

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,
(a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
(tracing of sparrow on snow-crested brown)
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)

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 strand,
(a soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she’ll be a true love of mine.
(sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

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.

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.

that is the most beautiful song he ever heard ... It is pretty to listen to, but it always sends shivers up my spine.

on the radio, in the grocery store, yesterday on NPR's news program they even played a couple of bars of "The Times They are a Changin'" by Bob Dylan. Sounded pretty good to me.

I think protest folk is getting ready to stage a comeback!

by Richard Speck is the Simon and Garfunkel song that sends shivers up my spine...and motivates me to put on ABBA and Enya.

That was always a throw-away track for me. I liked the original songs.

I was old enough to be news aware, grew up listening to WLS radio back when it was a top 40 rock format, so maybe what I knew about the slaying of the student nurses made me more sensitive to the song... life for much of society seems to go on in an idyllic way, while simultaneously others are being slain in their bedrooms with their epitaph being a 15 second news item.

I performed it as part of a trio in high school. I'm a S&G junkie :)