Are You Going To Scarborough Fair Lyrics

In the song, one can trace a story of a person who asks a traveling man to deliver the message to his former lover. He asks a traveler to give a message that she should make him a shirt not with any sewing and then look for one acre of the field and mow it as if she mows it with a leather sickle. Those impossible and difficult tasks look like the test of old love and its restoration. Through the whole song, there are always mentioned parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme – such elements which keep the mysterious style of the traditional folk song. In addition, there are natural images of hills, forests, snow, the sea and graves which are accompanied by the images of soldiers and the war itself. On the one hand, there is love and reminiscence of past and, on the other hand, there is a soldier who is cleaning his rifle, the preparation of army to fight and the order from general to kill the soldiers. In this way, personal love and remembrance are connected with the destructive war world. And at the end of the song, there is the message about the former lover again and the message that she used to be his true love.