Simon & Garfunkle

I've been listening to Simon and Garfunkle's Greatest Hits. (Why did they break up, anyway? Sigh.)

One of my favorites is "Scarborough Fair/Canticle)." The two songs are combined together to create an awesome effect. Of course it makes absolutely no sense, but hey! It's SIMON and GARFUNKLE for cyring out loud! Here are the lyrics:

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
(on the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
(tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land
(on the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsely, sage, rosemary, & thyme
(washes the grave with silvery tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
(a soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
(war bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
(generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
(and to fight for a cause theyve long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

"Sickle of leather" is so poetic. I've never seen one but I love the smell of leather. In fact, this song inspired me to make a leather-scented candle. Ahhh....it smells wonderful!

http://dragontalesjewelry.vstore.ca/

Regards,
Carly

What has four legs and can't walk?
A chair.