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She Moved through the Fair

The lyrics to She Moved Through the Fair are wistful and melancholy but beautiful at the same time.

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The song is very old and the lyrics may have been rewritten by the poet Padraic Colum who was the first person to collect and publish the song at the start of the 20th century.

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Musicians will note that the song is in the myxolydian mode which gives it a foreign, eastern feel.

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She Moved Through the Fair lyrics and chords

 

D 

My 

 

 

G 

young love said to  

D 

me

 

My  

C 

mother won’t  

D 

mind

 

And my  

C 

father won’t  

D 

slight 

 

you

 

For  

G 

your lack of  

D 

kine

 

And she  

C 

stepped away from  

D 

me

 

And  

G 

this she did  

D 

say

 

It  

G 

will not be  

D 

long 

 

love

 

Till  

C 

our wedding  

D 

day.

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She stepped away from me

And she moved through the fair,

And fondly I watched her

Move here and move there;

And then she went homeward

With one star awake,

As the swan in the evening

Moves over the lake.

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The people were saying

That no two were e’er wed,

But one had a sorrow

That never was said,

And she smiled as she passed,

With her goods and her gear,

And that was the last

That I saw of my dear.

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I dreamt it last night that

My young love came in,

So softly she came

That her feet made no din;

And she laid her hand on me

And this she did say,

“It will not be long, love,

Till our wedding day.”

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