Sydney MacEwan: She Moved Thro' The Fair

Traditional (County Donegal), arr. Herbert Hughes, published in 1909. Lyrics below. Duncan Morrison, piano. Irish reissue HMV IP 316 (approx. 1945; English Parlophone equivalent, R 2311 issued in 1937).
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My young love said to me
My mother won’t mind
And my father won’t slight you
For your lack of kine
Then she stepped away from me
And this she did say
It will not be long love
‘Til our wedding day.
She stepped away from me
And she went 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.
(This verse omitted in this recording:)
The people were saying
No two e’er were wed
But one has a sorrow
That never was said
And she smiled as she passed me
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
And she laid her hand on me
And this she did say
It will not be long love
'Til our wedding day.

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Beautiful my friend 😊

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Beautiful!

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Thank you Mary! Winging its way to you! 🥏

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Lovely!

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beautiful tone :) beautiful song

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