She moved through the fair (John J. Brackenborough)
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- CPDL #28604:
- Editor: John J. Brackenborough (submitted 2013-03-23). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 409 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Although I retain the intellectual ownership of this arrangement, I give permission for it to be freely copied and performed by male voices. You can contact me via email, jojab9@yahoo.com
General Information
Title: She Moved Through the Fair
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: John J. Brackenborough
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
My love said to me:
“My mother won't mind
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind”.
And she step’d away from me
And this she did say:
“It will not be long, love,
‘Till our wedding day”.
She stepped away from me
And she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her
Move here and move there.
Then she turned her way 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 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.
She laid her hand on me,
And this she did say:
“It will not be long, love,
'Til our wedding day”.