I recorded this video on December 20, 2021. The arrangement was made by me some years ago, and is featured on the CD "The Elfin Knight" (harmonia mundi France, 2007) with more instruments and a harmony voice. On that album, you will also find two other variations of The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad Nr. 2): Whittingham Faire and The Lover's Tasks. In this song, the lover presents his beloved with a series of impossible tasks: Make me a shirt with no seam, wash it in a well with no water and dry it on a rosebush with no thorn. When you are finished, come to me for the shirt which I made for you with no seam....

To skip the intro and go directly to the song: 4:05

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Scarborough Fair Lyrics (there are more, these are verses I chose):
„O, where are you going?“ “To Scarborough Fair,”
Savoury, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Remember me to one who lives there,
For once she was a true lover of mine.

And tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Savoury, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Without any seam or fine needle work,
And then she’ll be a true lover of mine.

And tell her to wash it in yonder dry well,
Savoury, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Where no water sprung, nor a drop of rain fell,
And then she’ll be a true lover of mine.

Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,
Savoury, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Which never bore blossom since Adam was born,
And then she’ll be a true lover of mine.

And when you have done and finished your work,
Savoury, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
You may come to me for your cambric shirt,
And then you will be a true lover of mine.
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I found this melody, in the major key and in "3" (as opposed to the dorian mode version in 4), in a supplement by Frank Kidson to the wonderful 19th century source, William Chappell "Old English Popular Music"

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