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Scarborough Fair/Canticle, provided with The Elfin Knight, Whittingham Fair and Rosemary Lane, and with an Appendix on Riddles Wisely Expounded

Simon & Garfunkel
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OriginalVersió en català de Júlia Osanz i Toni Giménez
SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE, PROVIDED WITH THE ELFIN KNIGHT, WHITTINGHAM FAIR AND ROSEMARY LANE, AND WITH AN APPENDIX ON RIDDLES WISELY EXPOUNDED

A1. SCARBOROUGH FAIR


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
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Without no seams nor needlework,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather,
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.

2. CANTICLE


On the side of a hill in the deep forest green
Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground
Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains
Sleeps unaware of the clarion call
On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves
Washed is the ground with so many tears
A soldier cleans and polishes a gun
War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions
Generals order their soldiers to kill
And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten.

LA FIRA DE SCARBOROUGH

A la fira de Scarborough vaig
Sàlvia i d’altres herbes del camp
Dóna records a algú que allí viu
Potser així em tornarà a estimar.

Digues que em faci un bell camisot
Sàlvia i d’altres herbes del camp
Sense costures ni descosits
Potser així em tornarà a estimar.

Digues que cerqui un recer per a tots dos
Sàlvia i d’altres herbes del camp
Cap a la costa i prop de l’avenc
Potser així em tornarà a estimar.

Un petit cau on creixi l’amor
Sàlvia i d’altres herbes del camp
Bo i recollint-les farem nostra vida
Potser així em tornarà a estimar ...


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