Lyric discussion by Vague Rant 

Cover art for The Scarborough Affaire lyrics by Everybody Was in the French Resistance... Now!

A response to traditional folk ballad "Scarborough Fair", probably most famous for the Simon and Garfunkel recording, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle". In that song, the narrator tells a visitor to Scarborough Fair to remind an old lover of him, with lines such as "Tell her to make me a cambric shirt, without no seams nor needlework" and "Tell her to find me an acre of land, between salt water and the sea strand," all followed by "Then she'll be a true love of mine." The French Resistance response acknowledges these requests as ridiculous and unfair on the narrator's ex, who has left him again after his behaviour upon his return of subjecting her to these tests.

Song Meaning