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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 song "Scarborough Fair" is considered a relatively recent variant of "The Elfin Knight", and both are officially classified as the same ballad. [7] Mark Anderson (1874–1953), a retired lead-miner from either Newbiggin-by-the-Sea [8] or Middleton-in-Teesdale, [9] County Durham, England, sang "Scarborough Fair" to Ewan MacColl in 1947.
List song; 0–9. 7 Things; ... Scarborough Fair (ballad) Seasons of Love; Sixteen Reasons; Slow Train (Flanders and Swann song) Slug (song) Song for Whoever; Space ...
"Scarborough Fair", the title track, [13] a traditional ballad, combines "fingerpicked guitar accompaniment, delicate chimes, harpsichord embellishments, and the vocal blend". [11] "Patterns" posits that the average life is no less predetermined than that of a rat in a maze. [14]
Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973. Cappella Books. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1556528439. Marqusee, Mike (2005). Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan And the 1960s. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583226865. Margotin, Phillipe; Guesdon, Jean-Michel (October 27, 2015). Bob Dylan: All the Songs. New York, NY: Black Dog ...
Carthy exposed Dylan to a repertoire of traditional English ballads, including Carthy's own arrangement of "Scarborough Fair," which Dylan drew upon for aspects of the melody and lyrics of "Girl from the North Country," including the line from the refrain "Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine".
I Walk Alone (Marty Robbins song) I Want You (Bob Dylan song) ... Scarborough Fair (ballad) A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)
This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title. The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the ...