Scarborough Fair - English Folk Song

"Scarborough Fair" (Roud 12, Child 2) is a traditional English ballad. The song lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover who lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using Dorian mode, with refrains resembling "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" and "Then she'll be a true love of mine".
en.m.wikipedia...)
Performed by Folkal Point.
All the paintings are by John William Waterhouse.

[@Viscount_Castlereagh]

One of my favourite English folk songs, it always takes me back to my primary school trip to York and Scarborough.

[@patrioticarchive]

Good stuff mate!

[@Vingul]

Doesn't get much more classic than this tune.

[@samd2024]

I learnt this song on a piano as a young boy. Makes me weep for the world I grew in.

[@kcirtapelyk6060]

I’m an American and I love this song. It must be my English blood.

[@joshwebb5016]

One of my favourite Folk songs, one of my earliest memories was when my teacher in year 1 would play this on her guitar

[@neilcarpenter2669]

English folk music at it's best, simply enchanting and simply wonderful.

[@lhwinter]

Old English music is so overlooked ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@ATkittenslover]

Beautiful, vibrant, sophisticated, outstanding, and heart-felt English culture. Please, people of Britain, protect it like a precious jewel, don't let it be forgotten.

[@The_Christian_Cavalier]

So enchanting

[@NihilsineDeo1866.]

Lovely 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎉

[@bonylpsteynjoseph2123]

These ethereal music brings in memories of the times of friendship with my little angel......those memories brings in searing nostalgia. Waiting for a happy reunion with my little angel in the lovely boulevard of church under sunlit sunday noon sunshine for us to smile again.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

BeautiIful and melodic English folk song. Is that Eve throughout those paintings from the Middle Age. When was it released ? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@patrioticarchive]

17th century I think

[@patrioticarchive]

I think they're just young maidens

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

​@@patrioticarchiveBusted 😅

[@rossmcinnes106]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)).

[@River.E.M]

Many are women from Greek myth, and some from English legend. By John William Waterhouse- a fine painter

[@antoniopola542]

Lovely version, lovely voice

[@NoAlternative0]

Sounds like before my illusion of England got shattered. Sweet

[@alexjahblunt3569]

i love the songs, pure English culture! i really miss when England was like this and not how it is now

[@braveblackpregnantjewishman]

Seeing England from the USA makes me sad for my ancestral homelands. Although the USA has its own problems. The great replacement must stop and mass deportations must happen.

[@h2hermit81]

back in the good ol' days when u died at 23 cause ur liege lord decided he wanted some other guy's pig farm 😔

[@bradmiller7486]

Rather than when you were beheaded by a foreigner for waving your OWN FLAG in the High Street?​@@h2hermit81

[@m4sherman926]

@@h2hermit81You know, the good old days when you got to choke on his majesty’s soot and ash, maybe get a bit of cholera on the side.

[@VanWinkle-z2s]

​@h2hermit81 now imagine if we preserved this culture while making the advancements we have today.

[@sebastiancarpenter4681]

Fabulous paintings! I must get a print of the knight and damsel ' La Belle Sans Merci' by John William Waterhouse, oil on canvas. Enjoyed!

[@napoleonlempereur3021]

beau ❤ 🇬🇧 🇨🇵

[@pygmy.]

My favourite.

[@patrioticarchive]

It seems to be a lot of people's favourite English folk song tbf

[@pygmy.]

@@patrioticarchive Mam used to sing it

[@bricktasticanimations4834]

Middle English translation of a slightly different version: Gost thou nou to Skarburugh Feire? Perseli, sauge, rosmeri, and time Remembre me to on that woneth ther For ones she was a treue louere myn Telle that she make me of lake a sherte Perseli, sauge, rosmeri, and time Withoute a seme or nedlework Than she shal be a treue louere myn Telle that she finde me an acer of land Perseli, sauge, rosmeri, and time Bitwene the salt water and the se strand Than she shal be a trewe louere myn Telle that she tille it with a lambes horn Perseli, sauge, rosmeri, and time That she sowe it al over with on pepercorn Than she shal be a trewe louere myn Telle that she repe it with a sikel of lether Perseli, sauge, rosmeri, and time That she threshe it out with a bonche of hether Than she shal be a trewe louere myn.

[@randyferguson2952]

Long live England and the commonwealth 🇨🇦

[@River.E.M]

John William Waterhouse is quite a fine artist

[@Akshit_Jha]

❤

[@tomweston9125]

Little bit of 'house of thre rising sun' sprinkled in there

[@studiotamara5787]

Is there a Nobel Prize in Preserving English Culture, mate? If so it should go to you. Rule Britannia!

[@patrioticarchive]

Probably not mate but thank you for the kind words mate!

[@sweetdude1298]

I heard the Timmy Trumpet hardstyle version first, but I had zero idea it was based on an actual song, and having this version (THE ORIGINAL) of the break I suddenly have a desire to break down in tears

[@oilchange6542]

Reminds me of the song "there is a house in new orleans"

[@JIHN-2451]

Yorkshire 🔥

[@myrarowlands9216]

👍👍👍

[@caveworld7849]

Ey up lad

[@RobGibbonsW]

Certified hood classic

[@busgreaser]

Why have our governments tried to deny and denigrate our beautiful culture? Music, Art,Science and everything else.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Same you could have asked "why physicians try to deny and denigrate the digestive system?" Ever considered that the place where you now live is built on layers and layers of ruins and bones? Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Romans, Celts, Danes, Normans - French Huguenots, and more. Not to speak about what the British Empire did around the world. You don't get to exploit the riches of India without eventually ending with a Prime Minister of Indian ancestry and former subjects of the Empire in your streets. It's merely fair.

[@EerikErvii]

And Religion!

[@Mohammad-u2l8z]

My country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 now😔

[@ryanmcbride971]

is there an instrumental of this? xx

[@shiba3071]

Ik they arent British but it would be great if you could post some Frisian songs due to their close relation to us English

[@patrioticarchive]

Probably not to be honest mate

[@shiba3071]

​@@patrioticarchivefair enough, tbh I don't actually know any Frisian songs

[@berjastkjuklingur1914]

@@shiba3071 ???

[@xd-ov2ts]

woah I am early and this is fire

[@robnewman6101]

Victorian Era 1837-1901. Edwardian Era 1901-1910.

[@eleanorsopwith9806]

❤😊

[@pygmy.]

I like this version, Martin Carthy's is also nice

[@robnewman6101]

Very Medivalish this.

[@pygmy.]

17th Century

[@robnewman6101]

You sure?

[@pygmy.]

@@robnewman6101 I believe. The fair declined in the 17th Century but was revived for a short time in the 18th. "It’s believed that the song can be traced back to an older, more obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight, which dates at least as far back as 1670 or even earlier."

[@robnewman6101]

Thank you.

[@robnewman6101]

Papperback DK Eyewitness Book of VICTORIANS.

[@robnewman6101]

Oh yeah. Here's a interesting History Information Fact for you to know. The Victorians had a somehow high intrest into the Medievals.

[@robnewman6101]

In the reign of Queen Victoria there was considerable interest in things medieval, particularly among the ruling classes. The notorious Eglinton Tournament of 1839 attempted to revive the medieval grandeur of the monarchy and aristocracy.

[@YorkyOne]

​@@robnewman6101 The 'Gothic Revival' in architecture.

[@greg_4201]

The greatest nation to ever grace the earth.

[@Arraia63]

There are other great nations on earth, all over the world. But for me, as a german, this song also touches me, perhaps there is some kind of common european heritage, some medieval ..... I don´t know..... I love this song!

[@greg_4201]

@@Arraia63 Well, we have a German origin in common

[@candle6183]

a touch of the Great British reserve and modesty is in this one

[@robnewman6101]

I have a Hardback DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of MEDIEVAL LIFE. Discover medieval Europe - from life in a country manor to the streets of a developing town.

[@Cheeseatingjunlista]

very poor version