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OAITW r.2.0

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Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:57 PM Jul 18

Simon & Garfunkel, Andy Williams - Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Live

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worth a watch.
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Simon & Garfunkel, Andy Williams - Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Live (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Jul 18 OP
I recently found out that the ballad of Scarborough Fair is quite old question everything Jul 19 #1

question everything

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1. I recently found out that the ballad of Scarborough Fair is quite old
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:43 AM
Jul 19

Scarborough Fair" (Roud 12, Child 2) is a traditional English ballad.[1] The song lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover who lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

The lyrics of "Scarborough Fair" appear to have something in common with a Scottish ballad titled "The Elfin Knight",[4] collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad #2,[5] which has been traced as far back as 1670. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task ("For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he&quot ; she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform ("I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand&quot .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)

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