- Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- Remember me to the one who lives there,
- She was once the true love of mine.
- Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- Without any seam or needlework,
- Then she'll be the true love of mine.
- Tell her to wash it in yonder well,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- Where never spring water or rain ever fell,
- And she'll be the true love of mine.
- Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- Which never bore blossom since Adam was born,
- Then she'll be the true love of mine.
- Now he has asked me questions three,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- I hope he'll answer as many for me,
- Before he'll be the true love of mine.
- Tell him to buy me an acre of land,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- Betwixt the salt water and the sea sand,
- Then he'll be the true love of mine.
- Tell him to plough it with a ram's horn,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- And sow it all over with one pepper corn,
- Then he'll be the true love of mine.
- Tell him to shear it with a sickle of leather,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- And bind it up with a peacock feather,
- Then he'll be the true love of mine.
- Tell him to thrash it on yonder wall,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- And never let one corn of it fall,
- Then he'll be the true love of mine.
- When he has done and finished his work,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
- Oh, tell him to come and he'll have his shirt,
- Then he'll be the true love of mine.
為解釋「Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme（香芹、鼠尾草、迷迭香同百里香）」嘅含義已投入大量嘅思考，雖然呢句副歌只喺較近期嘅版本入面搵到蹤影，而呢個冇乜好解釋。一種大眾覺得佢哋係好多種家常菜用嘅美食香料。
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