The mysterious history of the song “She Moved Through the Fair”
The mysterious history of the song “She Moved Through the Fair”
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irishcentral.com
"She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song whose origins are somewhat mysterious, with a melody collected in Donegal by Padraic Colum and Herbert Hughes in the early 1900s and lyrics that tell a haunting story of lost love. While the melody may be much older, the lyrics were published in 1909 and feature a man seeing his lover at a fair, only to have her spirit visit him later as a ghost. The song is often associated with bagpipes because it is played on traditional Irish and
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