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Thread #869   Message #3753
Posted By: Murphy@globalbiz.net
02-Apr-97 - 07:50 PM
Thread Name: Origins: She Moves through the Fair
Subject: RE: She Moves Through the Fair
There is a version of this that a friend I knew long ago had: Paddy Tunny, and he had his version collected in Northern Fermanagh. The first verse is the same as the later Lagan-Valley version that most people know, but the second verse is nice:

She moved away from me as she moved through the fair With hand-clappen dealers whose voice wrent the air her cheeks were as roses and her feet ne'er touch the ground And all that gazed on her were silent around.

There's a rumor that Paddy wrote this verse himself, but what if he did--it's a good song.