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Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle
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“Scarborough Fair” is a traditional English folk ballad, detailing a list of tasks the speaker gives to his former lover to earn back his love, which are impossible to achieve (
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Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Interlude)
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[Instrumental]
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Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough fair / canticle - single version
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Are you going to scarborough fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
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Gregorian – Scarborough Fair
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
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Lana Del Rey – Scarborough Fair
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[Verse 1] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / [Verse 2] / Tell her
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Daisy the Great (Ft. Kelley Nicole Dugan & Mina Walker) – Scarborough Fair
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[Verse 1] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / [Verse 2] / Tell her
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Sarah Brightman – Scarborough Fair
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / He once was a true love of mine / Tell him to make me a cambric shirt
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YAREED – Scarborough Fair
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[Intro] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / For once he was a true love of mine / [Verse 1] / Tell him
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Traditional – Scarborough Fair
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[Both] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / For she once was a true love of mine / [Man] / Tell her to
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Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson
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During the filming of the 1967 film The Graduate, director Mike Nichols, who had become a fan of Simon & Garfunkel’s work, asked for permission to use their music in the soundtrack
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Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson (Instrumental)
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[Instrumental]
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Current 93 – St. Peter's Keys All Bloody
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The lyrics are taken (adapted?) from Sounds of Silence and Scarborough Fair/Canticle, both performed by Simon & Garfunkel, though the latter is a traditional English folk song
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Ed Ames – Scarborough Fair / Canticle
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
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Paul Simon – The Side of a Hill
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[Verse 1] / On the side of a hill in a land called "Somewhere" / A little boy lies asleep in the earth / While down in the valley a cruel war rages / And people forget what a child
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Simon & Garfunkel – Cloudy
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“Cloudy” was jointly written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers (who later re-recorded it for their 1967 album Seekers Seen in Green).
The song is whimsical and
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Simon & Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
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The 59th Street Bridge is the colloquial name of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City.
The song’s message is immediately delivered in its opening verse: "Slow down, you move too
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Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell – Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Without Strings)
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[Chorus] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / Who once was a true love of mine / [Verse 1] / Tell her to
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Celia Pavey – Scarborough Fair / Canticle
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Are you going to scarborough fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / He once was a true love of mine / Tell him to make me a cambric shirt
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Remix)
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Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again / Because a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping / And the vision that was planted in my
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Dave Grusin – Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha
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Instrumental
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
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“The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine” was written by Simon while he was in London watching his clothes in a washing machine.
It takes a cynical view of advertising. The song
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Simon & Garfunkel – Flowers Never Bend with The Rainfall
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[Verse 1] / Through the corridors of sleep / Past shadows dark and deep / My mind dances and leaps in confusion / I don't know what is real / I can't touch what I feel / And I hide
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Poem on the Underground Wall
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This song concerns an artistically-minded vandal on the London Underground – his graffiti being referred to as a “poem.”
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Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
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“For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” is a song written by Paul Simon. It is the tenth track on Simon & Garfunkel’s 1966 album by Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, where it is sung
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Dangling Conversation
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“The Dangling Conversation” is a song written by Paul Simon, first released in September 1966 as a Simon and Garfunkel single “The Dangling Conversation”/“The Big Bright Green
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Simon & Garfunkel – Kathy's Song (Live)
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I hear the drizzle of the rain / Like a memory it falls / Soft and warm continuing / Tapping on my roof and walls / And from the shelter of my mind / Through the window of my eyes
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Simon & Garfunkel – My Little Town
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“My Little Town” was written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. It appeared as the second song on Simon’s solo album “Still Crazy After All These Years” and as the sixth song on
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Simon & Garfunkel – 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
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“7 O'Clock News/Silent Night” is the twelfth and final track on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, a 1966 album by Simon and Garfunkel. The track consists of an overdubbing of two
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Simon & Garfunkel – Patterns
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“Patterns” was written by Paul Simon and originally included on his 1965 album The Paul Simon Songbook.
The lyrics are about how life is a complex pattern that is difficult to
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Dave Grusin – The Singleman Party Foxtrot
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Instrumental
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Heart in New York
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New York / To that tall skyline I come / Flyin' in from London / To your door / New York / Lookin' down on Central Park / Where they say you should not wander after dark / New York
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