She Moved Through The Fair Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Micala 

Cover art for She Moved Through The Fair lyrics by Loreena McKennitt

This song is in memory of Enniskillen bombing took place on 8 November 1987

McKennit's version is on an album recorded two years before that, so I doubt it. It's a ttaditional folk song, first version I heard is Alain Stivell's from 1973. It's a ghost story - the narrator's fiancee dies just before they are married then appears by his bed and scares the living daylights out of him by saying it won;t be long ... In Stivell's version she touches him: once at the fair whle she's alive and then once more as a ghost.