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04 Dec 08 - 08:12 AM (#2507544) Subject: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST,charlotte Hi, I'm searching of what version of "she moved through the fair" this verse come: When dew falls on meadow, and larks fill the night When the glow from the griosach on hearth throws half light I'll slip from my casement and then I'll run away. Then it will not be long, love, 'till our wedding day Thanks |
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04 Dec 08 - 08:46 AM (#2507568) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: naughtyforty That is a version that I sing called 'Out the Window'. I learned it from a CD called A treasury of Irish song (I think) |
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04 Dec 08 - 08:51 AM (#2507570) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST,charlotte Do you have the full text of this one beacuse i can't find it anywhere... I know the first verse stay the same. |
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04 Dec 08 - 08:58 AM (#2507575) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Fred McCormick Recorded by Paddy Tunney in 1966 for Topic Records. It appeared on an LP called The Irish Edge. Topic 12T 165. You can find the words in Tunney's book, The Stone Fiddle. Give me a shout if you can't locate the book and I'll scan the text for you. |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:04 AM (#2507577) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST,charlotte Thank you I have the book i'm going to have a look. |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:09 AM (#2507582) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: naughtyforty First verse - same as original Second verse ^^ She stepped away from me and she moved through the fair Where hand clapping dealers' loud shouts rent the air The sunlight about her did sparkle and did play And it will not be long love until our wedding day When dew falls on meadows and moths fill the night When glow the ashes and dark grows half light I'll slip from the casement and we will run away And then it will not be long love until our wedding day According to promise at midnight I rose But all that I found were her downfolded clothes The sheets they lay empty, it was plain for to see That out of the window with another went she If I were an eagle and had wings to fly I would fly to my love's castle and 'tis there I would lie On a bed of green ivy I would lay my head down And with my two fond wings I would my love surround |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:10 AM (#2507583) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST,charlotte I can't find it in.. |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:11 AM (#2507584) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST,charlotte That is exactly this one i heard. is it the same one as Paddy Tuney? |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:25 AM (#2507597) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Malcolm Douglas No, it isn't. Paddy's set is on page 154. The text posted by 'naughtyforty' has been posted here before in at least one of the many other discussions of this song group, but no proper source has ever been credited so far as I recall. On the face of it it looks like a modern collation, cobbled together by somebody from the Tunney set and a version of 'Out the Window' from the Sam Henry Collection (ref. H141) |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:26 AM (#2507598) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Georgiansilver As an aside:- have you listened to Sinead O'Connors version of this song on Youtube.... worth lending an ear to. Best wishes, Mike. |
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04 Dec 08 - 09:40 AM (#2507611) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST,charlotte Thanks to all. Malcolm, i think what you said is the more probable way to understand this version. Thank you for the page number. |
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04 Dec 08 - 10:08 AM (#2507634) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Sleepy Rosie That's interesting, because I was asking before about what people like and dislike here a while back. Some months ago I was looking at the various YouTube versions of this song, and heard Sineads version, I thought she 'attacked' it a bit. Maybe just me, but didn't rock my boat at all. In fact none of the versions I found did, but I didn't find this then. I imagine this lady's name will mean rather more to others here than it currently does to me. Rather nice collage of images too. Sorry for the brief tangent... |
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04 Dec 08 - 10:38 AM (#2507657) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Frank_Finn Just listened to 3 youtube versions of this song (well bits of each actually) Sinead O'Connor Lorenna McKennit Anne Briggs and yes Sleepy Rosie, I agree that Anne's was best of the 3 to listen to. However none was the version referred to at the beginning of this thread. The best rendition I have ever heard was from Rita Gallagher from Donegal. A great earthy rendition and not dragged out by any means. Don't know if she ever recorded it. And there is a somewhat different air in the version she sings. Oh and something else. I am sure that in all three versions that I listened to on YouTube , the singer sang "...and my Father won't slight you for your lack of kind". |
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04 Dec 08 - 10:47 AM (#2507667) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: GUEST Have you ever heard the one by Patricia Flynn who often stay in donegal too? |
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04 Dec 08 - 07:12 PM (#2508134) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Sleepy Rosie Frank Finn: I learned 'kine' when singing it. But from what I generally glean, 'kind' is more common? Oh well, I'll not change it now! |
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05 Dec 08 - 04:37 AM (#2508399) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Frank_Finn Oh Sleepy Rosie!! Stick to "kine", an old name meaning cattle. Using the word "kind" makes no sense whatsoever. "My Father won't think less of you because you have no riches, property, means of support, i.e. Cattle (kine)" |
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05 Dec 08 - 04:54 AM (#2508408) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: MartinRyan Frank In fact, "kind" makes good sense that far north! I'll dig out the details later. Regards p.s. For that matter the "her goods and her gear" phrase is not an anachronism, either, IIRC. |
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05 Dec 08 - 04:58 AM (#2508410) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: MartinRyan I'm sure the related links will magically appear later - but CLICK HERE for the main related one. Regards |
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05 Dec 08 - 06:56 AM (#2508489) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: ard mhacha Go to You Tube and listen to Maureen Hegartys singing of this song, come back here and tell me if you have ever heard better. |
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05 Dec 08 - 08:46 AM (#2508558) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Malcolm Douglas It's 'kind' in Colum's poem and in every example of the older song he based it on that I've seen containing the line: 'kine' seems to be a modern (and rather over-romantic) Revival mis-hearing, though now very common among people who aren't familiar with the usage and don't understand the meaning of 'kind' in this context. This is explained in most of the other discussions here, I think. Unfortunately, the thread title seems to invite people to list their favourite recorded arrangements of Colum's song (though the actual qyuestion does not), which is one reason why the older threads on it are so hard to follow. It has been recorded by hundreds of people and is sung, I expect, by thousands. Properly, of course, 'She Moved Through the Fair' should be considered a 'version' -in that it's a 20th century literary re-write- of 'Next Market Day' (and other titles), not the other way around. |
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05 Dec 08 - 04:23 PM (#2508945) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Suegorgeous You can view Colum's poem here |
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07 Dec 08 - 02:01 PM (#2509655) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Jim Dixon Google Book Search finds these lines in Irish University Review, v. 5, 1975, page 287: When dew falls on meadow and moths fill the night, When glow of the greesha on hearth throws half light.... There is probably more, but Google Book Search shows only this snippet because the journal is still under copyright. |
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07 Dec 08 - 02:19 PM (#2509663) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: MartinRyan "greesha" is an anglicisation of "gríosach" which is Irish for "ember" or "glowing ash". It (the original Irish word!) was introduced by Paddy Tunney - as may have been mentioned elsewhere. Regards |
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08 Dec 08 - 07:06 PM (#2510276) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'She moved through the fair' versions From: Frank_Finn Thanks eeryone, I stand corrected. |