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Guest - Jun 17, 2006 05:57 PM EDT
Hi NSB, thanks for taking a crack at this. Not actually a folk song but rather a ballad by Simon and Garfunkel titled "Scarborough Faire." The answers are: 1. The herbs are out of order. 2. Scarborough Faire. 3. Make you a cambric red shirt. The actual words are: @SONG: Scarborough Fair/Canticle (P. Simon/A. Garfunkel, 1966) 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. On the side of a hill in the deep forest green. Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested brown. Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain Sleeps unaware of the clarion call. Tell her to make me a cambric shirt: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme; Without no seams nor needle work, Then she'll be a true love of mine. On the side of a hill a sprinkling of leaves. Washes the grave with silvery tears. A soldier cleans and polishes a gun. Sleeps unaware of the clarion call. Tell her to find me an acre of land: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme; Between the salt water and the sea strand, Then she'll be a true love of mine. War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions. General order their soldiers to kill. And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten. Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme; And gather it all in a bunch of heather, Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Guest - Jun 13, 2006 12:35 AM EDT
I'm guessing it's a reference to that folk song - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme ???