Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

喵寶花園 中種著 sage 、 rosemary 好多香草,  小如看著思維中卻不期然挑起了 Simon and Garfurkel 的音韻 "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" ...

原本的 Simon and Garfunkel 歌曲, 把二首歌曲和唱在一起, Scarborough Fair / Canticle,  哀淡的歌聲, 清澈的吉他聲, 二人唱著不同的歌詞和著, 除了 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme 那句和音, 就祇記得 " ...she once was a true love of mine," 那句,  孤寂哀傷時聽這首歌, 那幾句音韻特別深入心坎...

古舊的英國民謠, 韻詞洋溢著情意失落的無奈, 另一個卻是對戰爭的無奈, 和得好混合, 卻分辨不到每段音律的詞句... 衹是 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme 一直迥蕩在心思中...

網上找找, 香草溫馨的調味作用外, 還能培療心身...  Sage 是香味中的強勢力, 有般男性的曠野,  Rosemary (迷迭香) 卻常比喻為女性的愛, 含蓄卻不屈地持久...

找著cd 重温了幾遍, 想著  Simon and Garfunkel 曾伴著小如好多個弧寂的靜夜...


妳也會在聽嘛?  妳也喜歡嘛? ...



Scarborough Fair/Canticle   ( P. Simon/A. Garfunkel, 1966 )



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
   (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
   (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
   (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
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)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
   (Washes 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)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and 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, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

(原本是想寫在 Mabel 姐  喵寶花園 的回應中, 改在自己 blog 中湊湊數, 知 Mabel 姐一定會來訪噢...)