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She Moved through the Fair
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A traditional song, here given sparse instrumentation with Don McIntyre's haunting vocals.
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An itinerant bunch of traditional/contemporary Celtic musicians and singers with a loyal following in Hanoi, Vietnam and friends and former members around the w
The Social Weevils are a fluid bunch of musicians and singers who perform sets of traditional and contemporary Celtic tunes and songs from Ireland and Scotland. The band's first CD, "One for the Road," was recorded on January 3, 2000 at the Army Recording Studios in Hanoi, Vietnam, using instruments that were mostly cheap and/or broken. On that CD the Social Weevils were Peter Taylor (button accordion, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Higgins (tenor banjo, mandolin), Don McIntyre (fiddle), Huub Buise (guitar, vocals), Bob Baulch (guitar, vocals), and Mary O'Keeffe (vocals on one song). On Christmas Eve, 2000, the band recorded another CD, "Live at the R&R," at the R&R Tavern in Hanoi, Vietnam, thanks to owner Jay Ellis his wife and their son, and Ralph Raymond at the 4-track mixing board. The line-up that night was Peter Taylor on all his usual instruments and vocals, Don McIntyre on his fiddle, Ann Russell on recorders, Alec Soucy on tin whistle, Genvieve Thibault on bodhran and accapela vocals, Mary O'Keeffe providing Irish and English vocals, Joe Peters on guitar, mandolin and vocals, and assorted other friends (instruments, vocals, hand claps and foot stomps). The band's second studio CD, "Over the Ocean," was recorded in March 2004 at Kien Quyet Studio in Hanoi. The line-up for that album included Don McIntyre (fiddle, vocals), Anna Russell (recorders), Liz Druitt (bass clarinet), Darryl Rees (guitar, vocals), & Joe Peters (guitar).
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Peak #13
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
Padraic Collum/Traditional Melody
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Copyright-free
Uploaded
September 05, 2004
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MP3 2.5 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
The Irish poet, Padraic Colum, had all four verses in one of his collections. He was also a folklorist who produced many fine collections of mythology from different lands, so he was probably setting down a trad. poem rather than claiming he wrote it. The song is found in the Tinker (non-Romany Irish and Scottish gypsies) tradition... --LaMarca
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SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (Padraic Collum) My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind" And she stepped away from me and this she did say: It will not be long, love, till our wedding day" As she stepped away from me and she moved through the fair And fondly I watched her move here and move there And then she turned 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 her 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 As she laid her hand on me and this she did say "It will not be long, love, 'til our wedding day" Melody adapted from trad. by Herbert Hughes
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