Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on July 16th 2005 by MBAC.
This tune has been added to 112 tunebooks.
Also known as She Moved Through The Faire.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: She Moved Through The Fair
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmix
|(3DEF|G4 FG|A2 A4-|A4 GE|C2 D2 D2-|{EDC}D6-|D2 z2 AB|
c2 d3 A|B A3 F2|G4 {AG} F>G| A6-|A2 z2 AB|
c2 d3A|BA3 F2|G4 FG| A6-|A2 z2 (3DEF|
G6-|G4 FG|A6-|A2 z2 GE|C2 D2 {EDC}D2-|D6-| D4|
She moved through the fair
I've heard only two versions of it and I made a "mix" with both ones (which were very similar). I know that this tune repeats many times, (it's got lyrics) but i didn't put the repetiton because i don`t know exactly where does it repeat from; the different versions repeat from different parts. Anyway, I hope you like it.
Mariana
# Posted on July 16th 2005 by MBAC
She moved through the fair
But does anyone have a full text ?
Most singers I know start with;
"My young love said to me
My mother won't mind"
but I have heard a much longer version where this stanza is in the middle of the song, and it makes much more sense.
Help, anyone ?
# Posted on July 17th 2005 by Guernsey Pete
She moved through the fair info
The original words were an old ballad from Donegal which was collected in 1909. The words were "reworked" by Padraic Colum to this version. Alternate titles and variants include, Our Wedding Day and Out of the Window.
According to Ossian's Folksongs and Ballads Popular in Ireland - Volume I the tune dates back to Medieval times.*
Full Lyrics:
My young love said to me,
My mother won't mind
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind"
And she stepped away from me
And this she did say:
It will not be long, love,
Till our wedding day"
As she stepped away from me
And she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her
Move here and move there
And then she turned homeward
With one star awake
Like the swan in the evening
Moves over the lake
The people were saying,
No two e'er were wed
But one had a sorrow
That never was said
And I smiled as she passed
With her goods and her gear,
And that was the last
That I saw of my dear.
Last night she came to me,
My dead love came in
So softly she came
That her feet made no din
As she laid her hand on me
And this she did say
It will not be long, love,
'Til our wedding day
# Posted on July 19th 2005 by daithic
She moved through the fair
Years ago I heard a terrific version of this by Davy Graham and on friday on BBC 4 he was playing it in some folk club on Folk Brittania recorded back in the sixties
# Posted on July 30th 2006 by blueveetwo
She moved through the fair - alternative version
Here is an alternative version. I have added some chords too!
X:1
T:46. She moved through the fair
C:trad
Z:Klas Krantz 2006
R:Air
Q:"adagio"
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:D
(3ABc | "G"d2"Fm"c2"G"d2 | "A"e2e4- | e4dB | "G"G2>A2A2 | "A"A6- | A4 ef |
"A"g2a2>e2 | "Fm"f2e2>c2 | "G"d2c2d2 | "A"e6- | e4 ef |
"A"g2a2>e2 | "Fm"f2e2>c2 | "G"d2c2d2 | "A"e2e4- | e4 (3ABc |
"G"d2"Fm"c2"G"d2 | "A"e2e4- | e4 dB | "G"G2A2A2 | "A"A6- | A4 |]
# Posted on February 21st 2007 by Falkbeer