TLC Trio - Scarborough Fair

TLC Trio does a cover of the traditional folk ballad Scarborough Fair.

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Filmed & Edited by Brian Wesley
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Special Thanks to:
Bill Boyd, John & Amy Garff
Elise Russon Harris - Makeup
Gaynor Brunson - RockCanyonStudios.com
If you're interested in the history of this ballad, here's a few experts from Wikipedia.org:
"The song relates the tale of a young man who instructs the listener to tell his former love to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.

As the versions of the ballad known under the title "Scarborough Fair" are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is about the Great Plague of the late Middle Ages. The lyrics of "Scarborough Fair" appear to have something in common with an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight, which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task...

...Paul Simon learned the song in London in 1965 from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Art Garfunkel then set it in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of Simon's 1963 song "The Side of a Hill" with new, anti-war lyrics. It was the lead track of the 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme."

Filmed using Canon 60D; 17-55mm F2.8; Kessler Crane w/ Revolution head.

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