Scarborough Fair

According to the following website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/scarborough.shtml

Martin Carthy learned Scarborough Fair from a "Ewan MacColl song book". That would probably be 'The Singing Island' compiled by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl (Belwin-Mills Music Ltd., 1960). In the notes to the song (which is, of course, a variant of the ballad 'The Elfin Knight'[Child 2]) the compilers tell us that it was collected "From the singing of Mark Anderson, a retired lead-miner of Middleton-in-Teasdale (sic), Yorkshire, in 1947."
But, I've no doubt, the version which appeared on Martin Carthy's first album (fontana TL5269, 1965) was 'arranged' by him.