Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme indeed. The Sixties were a time when just about anything went in music. How else can you explain a song with roots in medieval times becoming a hit on the rock charts? It happened for Simon and Garfunkel. They took a traditional English ballad about lost love and an annual fair in the Yorkshire town of Scarborough, blended it with a reworking of a little-known Paul Simon song (“The Side Of A Hill,” renamed “Canticle”) and wound up with a hit.
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