Manila: Solution
First, identify all of the Beatles songs.
- A: For No One
- A: It Won't Be Long
- A: Sun King
- A: You Never Give Me Your Money
- E: Dear Prudence
- E: Long Tall Sally
- E: Love Me Do
- G: Long, Long, Long
- H: Honey Don't
- L: All You Need is Love
- L: Blackbird
- M: Back in the USSR
- M: Martha My Dear
- O: Chains
- P: Within You Without You
- R: One After 909
- R: Tell Me Why
- S: Baby's in Black
- S: Here Comes the Sun
- S: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
- T: A Taste of Honey
- Y: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
- Y: Don't Pass Me By
- Y: Get Back
One song, "Chains", hints at the next step but is otherwise unused. All of the other song titles can overlap first and/or last words with other songs to make chains of length 2 or 3.
- AGE: It Won't Be Long, Long, Long Tall Sally
- AR: For No One After 909
- LEY: All You Need is Love Me Do You Want to Know a Secret?
- ME: Martha My Dear Prudence
- PA: Within You Without You Never Give Me Your Money
- RS: Tell Me Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
- SA: Here Comes the Sun King
- SL: Baby's in Blackbird
- THY: A Taste of Honey Don't Pass Me By
- YM: Get Back in the USSR
The resulting two- and three-letter strings can then similarly be chained.
- PA-AR-RS-SL-LEY
- SA-AGE
- THY-YM-ME
These are three of the four herbs from the refrain of Scarborough Fair; the missing link is ROSEMARY.