She moved through the fair - Traditional

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◈ Genre / Form → Folksongs

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → TTBB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – C5

¶ Language → English

Measures 109

Texture Homophonic

Parts 13

Instruments TTBB, Orchestra

Pages 6

CPDL # 28604

Editor John J. Brackenborough

Posted 2013-03-23

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Tenor 1

F3 – G4

T 1

E4 – B4

Tenor 2

B2 – D4

Baritone

B2 – D4

Bass

F2 – B3

Bar

G4 – C5

D4 – B4

¶Lyrics / Text

My love said to me: “My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you For your lack of kind”. And she step’d away from me And this she did say: “It will not be long, love, ‘Till our wedding day”. She stepped away from me And she moved through the fair And fondly I watched her Move here and move there. Then she turned her way 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 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. She laid her hand on me, And this she did say: “It will not be long, love, 'Til our wedding day”.