[Verse 1]
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Are you goin' to Scarborough Fair?
G Em G A Em
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
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Remember me to one who lives there
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She once was a true love of mine
[Verse 2]
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Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
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Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
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Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
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Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
[Verse 3]
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Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
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Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Washes the grave with silvery tears)
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Between the salt water and the sea strands
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
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Then she'll be a true love of mine
[Verse 4]
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Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
G Em G A Em
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
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And gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Em D Em
Then she'll be a true love of mine
[Outro]
Em D Ds4 D Em
Are you goin' to Scarborough Fair?
G Em G A Em
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Em G D Ds4 D Ds4 D
Remember me to one who lives there
Em D Em
She once was a true love of mine