New Video Lesson on Easy Ukulele Song Scarborough Fair by 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulel...

http://youtu.be/JaGopRKGDrs Easy Ukulele Songs - Scarborough Fair - 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way



Here's a great easy ukulele song - an traditional English tune about the Yorkshire town of Scarborough. Best part - it sounds great on the ukulele.  Scroll to the bottom of the description for complete lyrics.



Some of the chords shapes are a little tricky - D, E7, G.  If you don't know them, click on over to  our playlist "How to Play Ukulele Chords" at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5meDCz5zO-B8UjXstv_2WurNRGJyyWz8 for lots of helpful tips.



The strumming pattern is super easy - just down, down, down, etc.  If you want to learn more complicated strumming patterns check out our playlist "Ukulele Strums"  at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5meDCz5zO-DD1mcV8_t_tuga9MzOJA46



Wait a minute!  Isn't this song originally by Simon and Garfunkel? well, no, not according to Wikipedia. Versions of this ballad have been traced back as far as 1670. As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, "Scarborough Fair" and the refrain "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme" date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot. A number of older versions refer to locations other than Scarborough Fair, including Wittingham Fair, Cape Ann, "twixt Berwik and Lyne", etc. Many versions don't mention a place and have more general titles like "The Lovers' Tasks", "My Father Gave Me an Acre of Land", etc.).



Again, based on Wikipedia, 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. It was the lead track of the 1966 album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme", and was released as a single after being featured on the soundtrack to The Graduate in 1968.



The copyright credited only Simon and Garfunkel as the authors, causing ill-feeling on the part of Carthy, who felt the "traditional" source should have been credited. This rift remained until Simon invited Carthy to perform the song with him as a duet at a London concert in 2000. Simon performed this song with The Muppets when he guest starred on The Muppet Show.



Before Simon had learned the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody and several lines from Carthy's arrangement to create his song, "Girl from the North Country", which appeared on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Nashville Skyline (1969) (together with Johnny Cash), Real Live (1984) and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1993).



Here are the complete lyrics:



Male part-



Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Remember me to the one who lives there,

For once she was a true love of mine.



Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Without any seam or needlework,

Then she shall be a true love of mine.



Tell her to wash it in yonder well,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Where never sprung water or rain ever fell,

And she shall be a true lover of mine.



Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Which never bore blossom since Adam was born,

Then she shall be a true lover of mine.



Female part-



Now he has asked me questions three,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

I hope he'll answer as many for me,

Before he shall be a true lover of mine.



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Between the salt water and the sea sand,

Then he shall be a true lover of mine.



Tell him to plough it with a ram's horn,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

And sow it all over with one pepper corn,

And he shall be a true lover of mine.



Tell him to sheer't with a sickle of leather,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

And bind it up with a peacock's feather,

And he shall be a true lover of mine.



Tell him to thrash it on yonder wall,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

And never let one corn of it fall,

Then he shall be a true lover of mine.



When he has done and finished his work.

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme:

Oh, tell him to come and he'll have his shirt,

And he shall be a true lover of mine.





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