the history of songs and poems is so interesting to me

why do so many people think Simon & Garfunkel actually wrote Scarborough Fair? 

the song is based on an old Scottish folk ballad (a creepy, rape-y one) called The Elfin Knight, which dates back to sometime around the 16th century

it transformed into many different versions, but the most popular ones are Scarborough Fair and Whittington fair, which were written a couple hundred years after The Elfin Knight was around

  1. accidentalpollination said: well the actual song they do is scarborough fair/canticle and the canticle part was written by paul simon but ya the main part wasn’t written by them
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