The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111732   Message #2359100
Posted By: melodeonboy
06-Jun-08 - 04:43 AM
Thread Name: Accents in Folk Music
Subject: RE: Accents in Folk Music
"Should bloody well think not - 'She Moved Through the Fair' is Irish."

Apologies, Jim. Many people have told me it's Irish and many have told me it's Scottish! The first version of it that I ever heard was by Alan Stivell, who is, as we know, neither Scottish nor Irish, and he claimed that it was Scottish! A quick trawl of the internet confirms that it is in fact Irish. What's a poor Englishman like me to make of it all?

(By the way, I've had no complaints from Irish people either!)