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2 unusual facts about She Moved Through the Fair


B-Tribe

B-Tribe did not make the cut for Pure Moods the album, but the rendition of "She Moved Through the Fair" from 2001's ¡Spiritual, Spiritual! was featured on the compilation Pure Moods IV.

Padraic Colum

He collected Irish folk songs, including the famous She Moved Through the Fair, for which Colum wrote most of the words, with the musicologist Herbert Hughes.


The Wishing Tree

During the Brave tour of 1994, Rothery was approached by Hannah Stobart, a student of French and Italian, who gave him her demo tape containing "She Moved Through the Fair" and Tori Amos's "Me and a Gun".

White Summer

It is based on an old Irish folk song, "specifically derived from 'She Moved Through the Fair' in the 1963 version by Davy Graham, which he in turn credited to Padraic Colum".


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