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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, and thyme (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground).
Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain).
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).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears).
Between salt water and the sea strands (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).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill).
And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten).
Then she'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, she once was a true love of mine.
I gave it an 'outstanding' rating but I think it really was my memories that were outstanding. Hard to separate sometimes.
That's the beauty of music! Your memories always colour your perception of songs - embrace it ;D
Garfunkel studied math in university. He did the sound engineering on this album. This song has many layers of sound that would be difficult to do live. And the harmonies are more than two voices deep. It's astounding. One of my fave songs in the known universe. Thank you, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
According to Wikipedia, the recording engineer was Roy Halee.
Garfunkel studied math in university. He did the sound engineering on this album. This song has many layers of sound that would be difficult to do live. And the harmonies are more than two voices deep. It's astounding. One of my fave songs in the known universe. Thank you, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
Thank You for the info! GREAT TUNE!!
/sarcasm no doubt...easy misterfixit
A time of innocence.
I see what you did there, bruceandjenna
Perhaps you have heard of Joni Mitchell?
Damned cold in the winter, just like "Skeggy" (Skegness)
-Linda
Yes I know that! I wrote "wrote some amazing lyrics over the years". This song just reminded me of a lot of them! Better now?
Clearly, you did not know that. Nice tap dancing though.
Paul wrote amazing lyrics over the years and beautiful songs.
I agree fully, even though, as some have noted already, this song isn't his.
radioparadise9 wrote:
Paul wrote amazing lyrics over the years and beautiful songs.
IMHO
Songwriters:
1 Bob Dylan
2 Leonard Cohen
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The rest are basically one hit wonders
YMMV
100% agreed! Long Live RP!!
Yes I know that! I wrote "wrote some amazing lyrics over the years". This song just reminded me of a lot of them! Better now?
Verily.
Freaking unbelievable! Only the Beatles and Neil Young come close to that level of diverse song writing Nirvana.
But a great version, I love this song!
Perhaps, but Paul Simon did not write this song.
Yes I know that! I wrote "wrote some amazing lyrics over the years". This song just reminded me of a lot of them! Better now?
Paul wrote amazing lyrics over the years and beautiful songs.
The song in its current form dates back to the 19th century, although the origins are much earlier.
Paul Simon learned it from Martin Carthy in 1965.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)
Pretty decent cover though.
Paul wrote amazing lyrics over the years and beautiful songs.
Perhaps, but Paul Simon did not write this song.
Love the song; the harpsichord caught my ear, which led me to start listening to and appreciating Baroque music.
Paul wrote amazing lyrics over the years and beautiful songs.
If I may say so, nice way to embellish any moment of one's life. Cheers!
I've met (unrelated) women named Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme... Parsley would be in for some teasing though.
Here's a Parsley for you.
Ambrosia Parsley that is...
Stone cold classic.
Abso...f...lutely..... Worund take it with me on to a lonely island....as it is two in one...and so perrrrrfect
I've met (unrelated) women named Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme... Parsley would be in for some teasing though.
What, Thyme is any better?
Would you also pay for their psych counseling?
I've met (unrelated) women named Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme... Parsley would be in for some teasing though.
wow... I have the original vinyl album... I did not know this—
Paul Simon learned it in 1965 in London from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Then Art Garfunkel set it in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of Simon's 1963 song "The Side of a Hill" with new, anti-war lyrics. It was the lead track of the 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, and was released as a single after being featured on the soundtrack to The Graduate in 1968. The copyright credited only Simon and Garfunkel as the authors, causing ill-feeling on the part of Carthy, who felt the "traditional" source should have been credited. This rift remained until Simon invited Carthy to duet the song with him at a London concert in 2000.
everybody in my alien space crafts loves this song, and this poem from the era...
First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels
by Allen Ginsberg, December 1965
Cool black night thru redwoods
cars parked outside in shade
behind the gate, stars dim above
the ravine, a fire burning by the side
porch and a few tired souls hunched over
in black leather jackets. In the huge
wooden house, a yellow chandelier
at 3 A.M. the blast of loudspeakers
hi-fi Rolling Stones Ray Charles Beatles
Jumping Joe Jackson and twenty youths
dancing to the vibration thru the floor,
a little weed in the bathroom, girls in scarlet
tights, one muscular smooth skinned man
sweating dancing for hours, beer cans
bent littering the yard, a hanged man
sculpture dangling from a high creek branch,
children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks.
And 4 police cars parked outside the painted
gate, red lights revolving in the leaves.
We used to listen to it in Mrs. Macy's art class.
She also brought in the Life magazine that featured photos of 242 American servicemen killed in a single week of fighting during the Vietnam War. (It was a June 1969 edition.)
So I guess the album was a few years old when she played it for us.
My parents were amused that I listened to the old crap as they named it. But those songs are still good while most of the 80's and 90's sound outdated and are ready to become forgotten.
Proclivities wrote:
It's a little newer than medieval - likely from as early as the 17th Century.
Okay. I'll raise a tankard o' mead to ye.
I remember listening to Simon and Garfunkle on Robert Froner's Reel to Reel in his backyard.
Wow.
That is great, I love this song! My uncle still listens to music on reel to reel>
You were in drag listening to this?
abbey_normal wrote:
If I ever ended up with quadruplets, I'd name them Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
I would.
Would you also pay for their psych counseling?
Proclivities wrote:
It's a little newer than medieval - likely from as early as the 17th Century.
It's a little newer than medieval - likely from as early as the 17th Century.
The movie was before my time, but I view at rather timeless. There will always be Mrs. Robinsons and Benjamins. The script and the way the movie is shot is brilliant. One of the few pre-1970 films I enjoy watching over and over along with Paul Newman movies and Spaghetti Westerns.
on my Mom's stereo when I was 7, in 1971. I listened to it endlessly!
I would say The Boxer.
I remember listening to Simon and Garfunkle on Robert Froner's Reel to Reel in his backyard.
Wow.
abbey_normal wrote:
If I ever ended up with quadruplets, I'd name them Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
I would.
amazing how beautiful this song really is... love it...
incredible song... from a truly great album...
If I ever ended up with quadruplets, I'd name them Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
I would.
You'd have a great tradition to follow: Ambrosia Parsley, Rachel Sage, Rosemary Clooney, and Thyme—all backed up by Thyme's band, Thyme. Get all that?
Nice a change of pace!
I wore that album out. Then I saw TM at the Albert Hall with It's a Beautiful Day. Good times for a kid.
(Hanging in Perth on business, love that RP sounds just fine here!)
ein sehr schönes lied ich liebe es
Ich auch!
ein sehr schönes lied ich liebe es
Half of it is a folk song. See Romeotuna's comment below.
If I ever ended up with quadruplets, I'd name them Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
I would.
One word...
One Word: Timeless!!
Hmm. I was ready to sorta leave this one alone, but the "sheer volume" argument—it could be 100,000 tracks of Britney Spears, Air Supply, and Barry Manilow—means zippo. Stick with taste. Desgustibus non disputandum est.