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"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional ballad originating from Northern England that presents a series of impossible challenges directed at a former romantic partner residing in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The Yorkshire and Northumbrian variant of the song was performed using different melodic settings, frequently employing Dorian mode and featuring refrains containing references to herbs and romantic devotion. The ballad was documented in Frank Kidson's 1891 collection Traditional Tunes, sourced from material gathered in Whitby.
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The song presents impossible tasks given to a former lover.
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