Lyric discussion by Vague Rant 

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

In Eddie's words: The singer of the 17th-century ballad "Scarborough Fair" instructs the listener to locate his former lover and charge her with a series of impossible tasks. The Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now response takes his unreasonable demands to their logical conclusion.

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