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Scarborough Fair Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1900
Key
Am
Time
3/4
Tempo
112 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
A4

Scarborough Fair on ukulele

The full melody, rendered as four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: g C E A (re-entrant High G) · Strum: D - DU

AECgAm00Am77G787Am0Am0710Am1212D121110AECgAm12Am1212Am1212C1212C12108G70G0Am07AECgG78G700Am0Am0

Arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G (gCEA) ukulele. On Low G, Baritone or D tuning the app re-fingers the same melody live. Left-handed? The app can mirror the whole tab.

Lyrics

Bar 1 — Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Bar 5 — Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Bar 9 — Remember me to one who lives there

Bar 15 — for she once was a true love of mine

Trad. English, collected before 1900 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Scarborough Fair is in Am and opens on A4. This tab is arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G ukulele: the fourth string (the top of the written tab, marked g) is tuned above the two strings under it, which is why a melody can dip onto the open g and come out sounding high — that's the instrument's signature, not a misprint. If you play Low G, the app re-fingers the same melody for your tuning live.

Pick the melody with alternating thumb and index, or the index alone on slower pieces, and keep your fretting fingers curled so open strings ring clear. Set the metronome under around 112 BPM, watch the tab rather than your hands, and loop the bar your take review grades worst until it comes back clean twice in a row. By the numbers, this setting runs 38 notes across 19 bars, from G4 up to A5 in 3/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 9 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Scarborough Fair cross-instrument hub.

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