Mr Frank Kidsen has given a copy of ‘Scarborough Fair,’ with some better readings, as sung “in Whitby streets twenty or thirty years ago,” in Traditional Tunes, p. 43, 1891.
1–4, second line of burden, true love.
22. Without any seam or needlework.
31. yonder dry well.
32. no water sprung.
41. Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn.
42. Which never bore blossom since.
5, 6. Wanting.
71. O will you find me.