If you do not like "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", you are a horrible person

generals order their soldiers to kill *shivers*

Hearing it 3 times in toto within like 30 minutes of The Graduate was a bit much.

Paul Simon learned the song in London in 1965 from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Art Garfunkel then set it in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of Simon's 1963 song "The Side of a Hill" with new, anti-war lyrics. It was the lead track of the 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, and was released as a single after being featured on the soundtrack to The Graduate in 1968. The copyright credited only Simon and Garfunkel as the authors, causing ill-feeling on the part of Carthy, who felt the "traditional" source should have been credited. This rift remained until Simon invited Carthy to duet the song with him at a London concert in 2000.[6] Simon performed this song with The Muppets when he guest starred on The Muppet Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7SDr_z8xTY

(btw I have just played this song 4 times in a row so obv I didn't think it was overused in "The Graduate")

Well, seeing as "Trad: arr" would have meant the same money to Paul Simon anyway, it's not a big bust-up.

Not like the "Trad: arr Alan Price" credit for "House of the Rising Son"...

this was one of the first songs i remember hearing as a little tiny kid and being like WHAT WAS THAT. i was maybe 4 or 5, i think.

We did this in Folk Club, at school, back in time....

(before Bridge/water happened)

I keep flipping back and forth between "Scarborough Fair" and Schoolboy Q feat. Kendrick Lamar - "Blessed":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bsJ7oGokg&feature=player_embedded

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwt4SP5BnZ8