Sarah Brightman - Scarborough Fair

Tell him to make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seams nor needle work
Then he'll be a true love of mine

Have him wash it in yonder dry well
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Where ne'er a drop of water e'er fell
And then he'll be a true love of mine

Tell him to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between salt water and the sea strands
Then he'll be a true love of mine

Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all in a bunch of heather
Then he'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
He once was a true love of mine

Music and lyrics: traditional, adapted by Peterson

From: La Luna (2000)
and from: La Luna: non-European version (2000)
and The very best of 1990-2000 (2001).
The song also appears on the Chinese version of Classics (2002?).

Source of the lyrics: the CD-booklet, with "she" and "her" converted to "he" and "his", because Sarah sings the songs as a woman, and one or two other small corrections. The lines in italics are in the booklet, they but are sung, and the repetition of the first stanza at the end is not in the booklet. (Thanks also to Colin M.)

There is very nice page with background info on this song, Scarborough, etc., which was originally set up by Bert de Jong. (That is where I found the pictures of "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme".) The lyrics given on that page differ somewhat from the above, and there are in total 10 stanzas.
[Thanks to Christian Wallenborg and Markus Birnbaum for info on this.]

 
Piron Christian wrote me that the arrangement of "Scarborough Fair" is the same as on "GREGORIAN - Masters of Chant" (a project of Frank Peterson, Sarah's friend and producer), where Sarah is also singing the last song. From Hananto Prihanto I understand that that song is Don't give up; I have got lyrics, but I am not sure whether this is the same version.

 
Sarah sang this song on 12 May 2000 in a Mother's Day programme on German TV ("Mama Mia", ARD) and it sounded very good! Jörg Kubitza took some 30 screen grabs of the song and earlier you could have a look at them via Elden's picture page 24, but Elden's pages have sadly vanished.
The presenter of the programme seemed to say that this song will be Sarah's new single, but I have no confirmation of that.

 
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