THE BEAUTY OF LOVE AND WAR

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Did you know one beautiful love song by Simon and Garfunkel hide anti-war lyrics in a subtle underlying vocal part? I've separated the parts and I pray imagery will separate hearts from fear, hate and intolerance...

Scarborough Fair
by Simon and Garfunkel


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

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt

..............
...............................................................................................On the side of a hill in the deep forest green
.............................................................................................
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
........................................................................................................Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground
Without no seam nor needlework
........................................................................................................Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountain

Then she'll be a true love of mine

........................................................................................................Sleeps unaware of the clarion call
...........................................................................................................
Tell her to find me an acre of land
........................................................................................................On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
........................................................................................................Washes the ground with silvery tears

Between the salt water and the sea strand

.........................................................................................................A soldier cleans and polishes a gun
..............................................................................................................
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather

.......................................................................................................War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions
..........................................................................................................
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
.....................................................................Generals order their soldiers to kill
.....................................................................
...............................................................................And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten
.........................................................................................
Then she'll be a true love of mine


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

[peacetheonlyway]

1. awesome post Mr. Ghost

i have always loved that song and now moreso.. great imagery...
never dissected the words, took it on face value, great double entendre....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. the part art sings is subtle, listen closely next time

My first true love shared the hidden words that show a subtle sadness deep in this song and my soul.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi peacetheonlyway!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[peacetheonlyway]

7. hi back... sweet dancing pink elephant

and what kind of beer are we cheersing, I'm a bit of a beer connoisseur so I like to know these things.. perhaps a chimay, or even a franziskaner, or for a nice amber, trois pistoles?

[OneBlueSky]

3. anyone remember "Silent Night/Seven O'Clock News"? . . .

in which news commentary of the day was spoken over S&G's rendition of "Silent Night?" . . . years ago, a friend of mine who was a political science professor at Columbia once performed the spoken part in concert with them . . . here's the text . . .

Silent Night
Holy Night
All is calm
All is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.


This is the early evening edition of the news:

The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open
housing section of the Civil Rights Bill. Brought traditional enemies
together but it left the defenders of the measure without the votes of
their strongest supporters. President Johnson originally proposed an
outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of
housing but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress
knew it. A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary
Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to
be an overdose of narcotics. Bruce was 42 years old. Dr. Martin Luther
King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open housing march
Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Cook County Sheriff Richard
Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the police in Cicero said
they would ask the National Guard be called out if it is held King now
in Atlanta, Georgia plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.

In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was
brought before a grand jury today for indictment. The nurses were found
stabbed and strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee
of the House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe
into anti-Viet Nam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted
from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.

Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unlesss there is a
substantial increase in the present war effort in Viet Nam, the U.S.
should look forward to five more years of war. In a speech before the
Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said
opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon
working against the U. S.

That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
Goodnight.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. I remember that one; strong stuff thanks

but I forgot lenny bruce until tonight... what a loss... where are all the social heros?

[saltpoint]

6. Mssrs. Simon and Garfunkel were able in those early recordings to

mesh extremely attentive and fine-tuned social politics with exquisitely refined lyrics and musicianship.

It's always real tough for us mere humans to get to "perfect" in anything we do. But those first four albums, including the recording you specify, JG, are as close to perfect as it gets in the human realm.

Relics of a higher realm, they are.

You are right to love that song and that message.

A lot of us are with ya.