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Mainly Norfolk quotes Kenneth Goldstein in relation to the Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger recording in 1957 saying "Early forms of the ballad, dating from the last half of the 17th century, have an elfin knight pose the impossible tasks". I prefer the tune Martin Carthy sings on the 2018 album "Anchor" and on the 2025 "Transform Me Then Into A Fish".
Are you going to Scarborough Fair (Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme)
Remember me to a lass who lives there (For once she was a true love of mine)
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt / Without any seam and no needlework
Tell him to find me an acre of land / Between the sea and the salt sea strand
Tell him to plow it with a lamb’s horn / And to sow it all over with one peppercorn
Tell him to reap it with sickle of leather / And to thrash it all out with a peacock’s feather
When you have done and you’ve finished your work / You can come to me for your cambric shirtÂ