民謠搖滾的經典之作

Columbia唱片公司的一位製作人Donald "Bob" Johnston，八月14日在納許維爾的一間安養院中去世（83歲），在Columbia的時候，Bob曾經參與好多經典專輯唱片的製作，如Bob Dylan的 "Blonde On Blonde" 及"Highway 61 Revisited"， Simon & Garfunkel的 "Sounds Of Silence" 及 "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme" 還有 "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison"，

他也製作了Patti Page的單曲 "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" (#8-1965)。

Donald "Bob" Johnston的太太Joy Byers是一位作曲人，Bob和她一起寫過 Elvis Presley's "It Hurts Me" 及 "Let Yourself Go" 還有 Timi Yuro的 "What's A Matter Baby"。

"Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme"是Simon & Garfunkel的第三張專輯唱片，1966年十月十日推出，其中的單曲"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" 中的Scarborough Fair是十九世紀的一首民歌，與讚美詩般的Canticle混和，自歌詞中表達因越戰帶來的悲情，也曾在電影 『畢業生』當中使用當配樂，這一首歌於1968年獲得過第11名，在BMI全美最常播出百名排行榜則獲得第31名，極受歌迷們喜愛。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj4s9I-53g

Scarborough Fair

Simon & Garfunkel

Music & Lyrics : Paul Simon - Art Garfunkel

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt

(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)

Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme

(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)

Without no seams nor needlework

(Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)

Then she'll be a true love of mine

(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land

(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)

Parsely, sage, rosemary, & thyme

(Washed is the ground with so many tears)

Between the salt water and the sea strand

(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)

Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather

(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)

Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme

(Generals order their soldiers to kill)

And to gather it all in a bunch of heather

(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)

Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was a true love of mine.