English: Scarborough Fair

This song traces back as far as 1670 and is filled with adynata, impossible tasks like hell freezing over, that must be completed before “she'll be a true love of mine.” In other words, when pigs fly.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parseley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there,
She was once a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Without any seams or needlework,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.