Scarborough Fair [but not really relevant]

["Sallie Montuori, aka Alys of Foxdale" <foxdale@wolfstar.com>]

Poster: "Sallie Montuori, aka Alys of Foxdale" <foxdale@wolfstar.com>

> > >OTOH, if this were an _important_ difference, I would expect
> > >Simon and Garfunkle's "Scarborough Fair" to be frowned upon at
> > >events, and I don't find this to be true.
> >
> > I was under the impression that the words and tune to "Scarborough Fair"
> > (though not the harmony in S&G's version) were period.  If not, it is at
> > least perioid and belongs with the perioid stuff.
> 
> I don't dispute that "Scarborough Fair" is from the Period.
> But thanks to S&G, it is a familiar part of mundane popular culture.

Am I the only person under 40 in the western world who learned
"Scarborough Fair" before ever hearing the Simon and Garfunkle
version?

   Alys of Foxdale        | Vert, on a fess between three trees
foxdale@wolfstar.com      |     argent, a fox passant gules.

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