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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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Original"La Fiera del Perdono", la versione italiana dei Califfi (1968) "La...
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 Fiera del Perdono

Se tu vai alla Fiera del Perdono
giù al paese torroni e collane
Se incontri lei, se incontri il mio amore…
dille che ancora non posso tornare…

Dille ricami su un pezzo di seta, -
due gabbiani fra nuvole rosa,
ma non con filo di tanti colori,
ma con il crine dei suoi capelli

Dille che trovi un pezzo di terra,
fra gli ulivi e ruscelli di vetro…
Allora potrò sognare con lei
e la vendemmia ci troverà insieme…

La montagna ride col vento,
giù al paese torroni e collane…
E quando grido il tuo nome di neve,
fugge un cerbiatto lungo il sentiero…

Se tu vai alla fiera del perdono
giù al paese torroni e collane,
se incontri lei, se incontri il mio amore
dille che presto io potrò tornare…


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