Fairport Convention - She Moves Through the Fair

      
 
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 #Fairport Convention
 #She moves through the fair (What we did on our holidays)
 #By Marcel Veltman
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 #Who can say something sensible about the origin of this song? Many people believe it is a
 #mediaeval traditional, but problably it was made up somewhere in the 19th century just to
 #sound like one. There are even rumours that it is a complete hoax, brought into being by
 #a young American named Randy Newman, long before he himself outfamed this song and
 #everyone who ever sang it. If this is true, he never claimed the joke, nor the royalties
 #when The Simple Minds took the melody for their mega-selling hitsingle 'Belfast Child'
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 #D, C, G, D,
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 D                       
 My young love said to me
     C            D  
 My mother don't mind
 
 And my father won't sligh you
      C            D  
 For your lack of kind
          C             D   
 And she laid her hand on me
      C               Am 
 And this is she did say
     C                D  
 It will not be long love
       C           D 
 Till our wedding day
 D, C, Am, C, D, C, G, D
 
 And she went away from me
 She moves through the fair
 And fondly I watched her
 Move here and move there
 And then she went homeward
 Only one star awake
 Like a swan in the evening
 Moves over the lake
 
 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
 Oh, it will not be long love
 Till our wedding day