Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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One of the earliest known recordings of this classic Irish folk tune. Strange that this isn't long since on youtube... been meaning to upload since before I posted this triple version video last year (Anne Briggs, Davey Graham, Shirley Collins) youtu.be/5iUxYQ-Y3r0?si=vX0Xi0foh9RfSCTU

This version was recorded by Peter Kennedy. Francis McPeake sang and played the uilleann pipes (bagpipes) on it. The bellows of these pipes are inflated using one's elbow, thus he could sing and play simultaneously.

«"She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song, which exists in a number of versions and has been recorded many times. The narrator sees his lover move away from him through the fair, after telling him that since her family will approve, "it will not be long, love, till our wedding day". She returns as a ghost at night, and repeats the words "it will not be long, love, till our wedding day", intimating her own tragic death and the couple's potential reunion in the afterlife.»


Ireland / British Isles / traditional music