Scarborough Fair Canticle Chords
Scarborough Fair Canticle by Simon And Garfunkel is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, C, G, D, G/B, A and Am7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: Am
verse 1
Am C G Am
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
C Am C D Am
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
C G
Remember me to one who lives there
Am G C G/B Am G Am
She once was a true love of mine
verse 2
Am C G Am
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Am
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
C Am C D Am
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
Am
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
C G
Without no seams nor needlework
Am
(Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)
Am G C G/B Am G Am
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Am
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
verse 3
Am C G Am
Tell her to find me an acre of land
Am
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
C Am C D Am
Parsely, sage, rosemary, & thyme
Am
(Washed is the ground with so many tears)
C G
Between the salt water and the sea strand
G
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Am G C G/B Am G Am
Then she'll be a true love of mine
verse 4
Am C G Am
Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
Am
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
C Am C D Am
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
Am
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
C G
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
G
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Am G C G/B Am G Am
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Verse 5
Am C G Am
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
C Am C D Am
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
C G
Remember me to one who lives there
Am G C G/B Am G Am
She once was a true love of mine
Outro
Am Am7 Am Am7
Mark W