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Topic: What's with "Scarborough Fair"? (Read 1392 times)

gregh

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What's with "Scarborough Fair"?

on: February 04, 2014, 07:53:46 PM

I just kind of noticed, playing another arrangement of "Scarborough Fair", that it sounds like The Land of Lost Souls. Why does a song about a fair sound so lonely and forlorn?

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ianw

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Re: What's with "Scarborough Fair"?

Reply #1 on: February 04, 2014, 08:41:55 PM

The song's theme is really about lost love and revenge rather than the fair itself. It also seems that the Scarborough Fair of medieval times involved a lot less hot dogs and candy floss than you might have hoped for, and a lot more parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. I mean a LOT more. Enough to make anyone forlorn.