1 'Oh where are you going?' 'To Scarbro fair.'
Savoury, sage, rosemary and thyme
'Remember me to a lass who lives there;
For once she was a true lover of mine.
2 'And tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Without a needle or thread or ought else;
And then she shall be a true lover of mine.
3 'And tell her to wash it in yonder well,
Where water neer sprung nor a drop of rain fell;
And then, etc.
4 'And tell her to hang it on yonder stone,
Where moss never grew since Adam was born.
5 'And when she has finished and done, her I'll repay,
She can come unto me and married we'll be.'
6 'Oh where are you going?' 'To Scarbro fair.'
'Remember me to a lad who lives there;
For once he was a true lover of mine.
7 'And tell him to buy me an acre of land
Between the wide ocean and the sea-sand;
And then he, etc.
8 'And tell him to plough it with a ram's horn,
And sow it all over with one pepper-corn.
9 'And tell him to reap't with a sickle of leather,
And bind it up with a peacock's feather.
10 'And when he has finished, and done his work,
He can come unto me for his cambric shirt.'