Fairport Convention - She Moves Through The Fair Lyrics

From the year I was born,. I don't think I've heard the band or the song before. Like it a lot though, will add to playlist.

My previous favorite version of this was, believe it or not, by Jeremy Brett (of Sherlock Holmes) from when he guest-starred on Twiggy's 1-season 1975 variety tv show. Which I only knew about because the whole thing is on Youtube!

I've known this song for 25 years and I've known Fairport Convention for 35 years, but it wasn't till this week that I learned FC had covered this. And it is instantly the best version of the song I have ever heard.

Beautiful

how in hell did I miss this song. i'm a huge fairport convention fan, and this song broke me down just hearing it today. I balled like a kid. it's up there with their best, including 'who knows where the time goes', 'reynardine', 'sailors life', 'fotheringay'. just going to have to listen to their whole collection.

Although this is a fine rendition, it is by no means the best. It's lacking, I can't describe what is missing. My father sang it. To my ear he was the best. Perhaps the best, has yet be to be sung

@snipper1ie I think you may be reacting to her etherealness - sandy denny has always had an otherworldiness in her vocals. "sailor's life", "reynardine", "crazy man michael", "i'll keep it with mine", in pretty much all of her vocals she floats above the melody, only betraying the smallest bit of emotion in her songs. For me, I love that. I feel its my job to make up my mind about the song and feel it for what its worth - and its her job to set the tone for it.
Whereas other folk singers (notably joan baez) pretty much drown the music in the emotions that *they* are feeling. Its a different style, but its one that I feel is more suited to blues than it is to folk, and i'm not as fond of it. so to each his own...

Incredible...

🤘🤘🤘🤘

To all sad lonely people this Christmas. I offer a message of hope and love to you. Perhaps the level of pain a person feels over the loss of what once was, is both an indicator of what you value and your ability to value. Perhaps we grow more valuable in the process. That's scant emotional relief for anyone that's feeling sad. Having dealt with depression nearly all of my life, I'm familiar with the color black and with elephants who stand on your chest. At times, I wondered if I would die from the pressure and yet, I'm still here; you're still here. Would we be better off never having experienced wonderful things, never having loved someone so deeply? Who would we be then? Loss, endings, saying goodbye, never getting to say goodbye, its all hard. When my son was hit by a tractor trailer and lying in a coma, I looked at the faces of all the other families with loved ones in a coma. I searched their eyes full of terrible pain. No one spoke to each other; and this is so strange to me now. People talk on every other occasion, but this horrible condition, the trappings of having absolutely no control of my baby's treatment or destiny nearly drove me mad. And I wonder sometimes, if having no control and being umable or unwilling to accept that is the root of despair. Buddha seems to think so. But those poor people; their loved ones would never recover, never regain consciousness, this was umderstood and their deep loss of any connection with their loved ones, who were alive, but lying in fetal.positions was thick and palpable. Yet here I was screaming at God, and criticizing the very staff who were keeping him alive; meanwhile, my son began to come out, come back, beginning with one finger. Then one eye opening. From one hour, then to several hours, then day by day, we didn't know if he would survive. He is alive and i'm so thankful. Others I've loved, my Dad and my brother and my grandparents and aunts are gone. We dont know how or when we or anyone else will go. Everybody's heard someone say, "Life is what you make it", and when I'm feeling bummed, I just wanna tell them where to stick it, but ITS TRUE. What is so incredibly true in that statement is this: everything great you've experienced, every single person and living thing you've ever loved, is your EVER INCREASING ability to love more. More things, more kinds of people, more of every aspect of your life. When you're down and sad, how can you be expected to love more? Give more? But that is exactly what I'm saying: When you least want to, that is the time when you need to reach out and touch someone. Go knock on a neighbors door you've had a feud with. Go down to your local.police station and bring them pies and say thank you, give all of your work bonus to your hospital's pediatric cancer ward, help someone with their packages. Dont let sadness take you over; get up, walk out the door and take over sadness. Pay what you're capable of forward to someone who can use your love. Your world will expand and grow into some kinda wonderful you dudnt even know you had in you. YOU CAN DO IT. I wish everyone could hear Sandy sing. She is gone but we are lucky we can appreciate her incredible voice because that is what she left behind. We can leave beautiful things behind too. We can make a far reaching legacy by using the chances we've had to love and experience good things while we're still alive. For others. Everybody have a peaceful Christmas. God bless you.

@sharon jones thank you. and I truly mean those words. every day I do something, even if its just a tiny thing, for someone else. giving something of myself is really the only important thing I'm living for. and the "return on investment", even just a flash of recognition in someones eyes is like receiving a rainbow straight into my heart. Doesnt come easy to do, I have a lot of anger, but it is getting easier over time. Peace to you.

@Lyn B I am in a similar emotional landscape, some days I feel the pain more than others but I will follow God's Grace to where He leads. Bless you again for your words of peace.

@sharon jones 🌈✝️♥️

@Lyn B :)

Another great Irish ballad

Achingly sweet

I went to buy an LP back in the 70s of a group that I had in my head because I had heard them on the radio but when I got to the record store, the name of the group escaped me. (actually it was Fleetwood Mac I was looking for but I had a brain fart and I knew the name of the group started with an F).... well I looked and searched and came across an album I thought might be the album I was looking for.... you know, Fleetwood Mac and Fairport convention. Sorta kinda sound alike, so I bought it, which was this album. I took it home, played it on my turntable and realized it was the wrong album. But lo and behold I gave this album a chance and I fell in love with it. So I bought this album by mistake oh, but what a good mistake that was

Eine wunderschöne Erinnerung an meine Jugend, als es noch eine Vielfalt in der experimentellen Popmusik gab .

Alguém manipula ... não tem muita saída

Rplay charle trenet la mer

What a voice..what a singer...OUTSTANDING!

I wish more people made music like this. Rap has really ruined the children. The 60s and 70s were some of the most creative time's for music.

@Kenan Korucu , it's genre of poetry not music. Generational Social engineering just like Punk blowing way Prog Rock. A way to divide....and it works! part of the "dumbing down" process to control.

Well encapsulated, The talent from the US was also great I am a big Tamla Motown fan ... I remember Ronald Reagan cutting music funding to public schools, the schools from which many a great talent had emerged in the 60s and 70s, I often wonder if that had anything to do with the decline to rap, None can really play any instrument just tap machine buttons and programme loops.

I'm sorry I'm just saddened by the fact that people who listen to great music like this, can't just appreciated it but instead feel the need to shit on music like rap that they clearly can't understand.
I listen to all type of music, and hiphop/rap has touched me emotionly the same way as older music like this do. It is just such a close minded statement. I bet your parents told you that the music you listen to is not music and yet now you act the same way

@Kenan Korucu , I hear ya and we are all influenced more in our teen years. Part of the agenda is to perpetuate generation gaps. That's why the general perception does not show *gradual* changes in music..just sudden changes. The mainstream media pushes out the most extreme examples. This discourages further exploration genre. Rap seems to bring out the emotions of anger & conflict. no feel good factor. no melody,.Anyways...Best wishes for 2020!

@Baz10 I do agree that a lot of current Mainstream Hip hop is bad. But it is a diverse genre full of unique people and sub genres and different sounds, a lot of great stuff happens outside of the mainstream especially in that genre. So I feel that it is somewhat unfair to just make a broad statement like the original comment did.
Also wishing you the best for 2020

Songs like this still sound fresh, as they belong to the ages.

This would have fit nicely on Surrealist Pillow.

Never thought of that, but yes, It really would.

And played live by the early Airplane it would have lit up the Matrix or Avalon...

Doesn't music like this make you wish you could've been there x

But we are there! Any era when we can listen to this is "there"! Great record, eh?

So true you're totally right

Sadly missed. A haunting, pure voice.

Listening to her voice is like floating on a breeze in the English countryside.

une version à la harpe par Alan Stivell aussi !

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Didn’t like folk type music in my teenage years but now in my 60’s I love the sounds of FC and the brilliant Sandy Denny,what have I been missing?

Wow ,first time I have heard her voice.

You never heard her on Led Zeppelin IV?

No one ever sang this song like Sandy. Only once in a lifetime does a singer songwriter with her talent come.

sorry Anne Briggs much better

'Much'? Everything is relative.....

Sinead O'Connor has a striking version of this that appeared on the soundtrack for the biopic "Michael Collins."

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Phils words and this song made me ..well.. cry in a good way. I grew up with wooden folk music. Im so glad for it.

it was 1969 when we had the troubles ...long story

Was this Sandy Denny?

There is a strange and potential connection between the song and Emily Brontes Wuthering heights.
Emily's father Patrick, came from Ulster, that's the 9 county Ulster; not the Colony, and the song is said to be from Donegal/ fermanagh area.
There are similarities between the novel and the song.

The version by Alan Stivell (on Chemins de Terre) is to me a wonderful companion to that by Fairport Convention.

Live in Brittany and just listened to that version, you are right on that.

@lyndsey stonelinziM Personally, I find Stivell's version even more moving than Fairport's.

There is a small Village called Stivell not far from here. He lives near to that place. So must call his version better. First heard it in the early 70's. Very musical around here. every village has its own group of players of local folk songs. my wife who was on the stage when young sings with them. Leonard cohen once played in our village hall! Its quite large, not small like most. @Jeroen Soutberg

Loreena Mckennitt's version always sends chills down my spine.

Van Morrison?

This band certainly inspired a lot of Jimmy pages folk writing
You could even say plagiarism

Breathtaking.

This is perfection and has well stood the test of time.

So beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

This is a gem!!!!

Still sounds so good, greetings from Ireland.

One of my very favourite songs

parts of the background music sounds like a song from the quadrophenia album a few years later but what one as the whole album is a masterpiece

This is the best I've heard. But, the rendition by Tir Eolas, also on YouTube, is a close second, with the young musicians putting the perfect feeling into their support of their ethereal singer

Judy,n,sandy.two angelic voices.richard Thompson on guitar.estupendo!

Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer".[1]

After briefly working with the Strawbs, Denny joined Fairport Convention in 1968, remaining with them until 1969. She formed the short-lived band Fotheringay in 1970, before focusing on a solo career. Between 1971 and 1977, Denny released four solo albums: The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, Sandy, Like an Old Fashioned Waltz, and Rendezvous. She also duetted with Robert Plant on "The Battle of Evermore" for Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin IV in 1971. Denny died in 1978 at the age of 31 due to injuries and health issues related to alcohol abuse.[2]

Music publications Uncut and Mojo have called Denny Britain's finest female singer-songwriter.[3][4] Her composition "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" has been recorded by Judy Collins, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, 10,000 Maniacs and Cat Power. Her recorded work has been the subject of numerous reissues, along with a wealth of previously unreleased material which has appeared over the more than 40 years since her death, most notably including a 19-CD box set which was released in November 2010.

Great stuff, city zen. I remember we had a couple of Strawbs albums back in the 70's. It's one of those situations where I looked at your reference to the Strawbs and went "oh yeah, I remember them". In other words, I had forgotten them but I know I liked them.
I really only got to know about Sandy Denny, and Fairport Convention, from my disovery of Richard Thompson and the backtracking from there.

chanson celtique irlandaise,sa voix est parfaite pour cette chanson..

WOW! pls everyone check out a cover (a version, as it's a very old tune) by Polish singer Ula Kapala... more quiet, more ballad, ... the same vibes!

Miss you, kid. But look at all these comments. Are you allowed to read them up there? .

I get a tad stuck on what we did on our holidays, its exceptionally cool, no big deal, history

angel voice

such a beautiful song sung by a beautiful voice! xx

just wow

Ohhh. Thanks Sandy after a wandering evening.

I nearly puked when I saw that fake bastard, Billy (Big country house) Bragg in these listings.

This is the real deal. Englishness and Britishness in musical form.
👌

If you did puke, hopefully it was mostly on yourself.

John, the song is irish, not British. Sandy and Fairport, as far as I know are English.
Regards.

wonderful.....best version I've heard... folkrock at it's best!... #JulyJuly #folkrock #ladyofthefirstlight

VOICE OF A FUCKING ANGEL

missed you

Can't stop playing this.....so glad I found it....so embarrassed I never heard of it before.....

As an aside, Richard Thompson's finesse, control, sense of melody and ability to complement the vocals, and his incredible ability to play from somewhere deep inside reminds me, the more I listen, of Duane Allman.

Richard Thompson is an amazing talent, he continues to tour and delight audiences wherever he performs.

A note on this song: There was a shortcut trail/old road behind my grandmother's house in Eastern Kentucky. The road ran through the deep woods and was overgrown and rutted and hit a flat spot about halfway down the hill. My grandmother said that the family who lived there in the thirties lost three children to one of those epidemics that were common at the time and the children were buried there somewhere. If I was coming back from my uncle's house on a moonlit night, I would turn off my flashlight there and walk through slowly, looking for the spirits of those children. That's what this song feels like.

what a lovely thought, gave me chills

Sandy still sorely missed....taken far too soon.....Nick Drake was another. ...but what a musical legacy left behind. Farewell, farewell sweet lady

Tim Buckley too

R.I.P Sandy x

My love said to me
My Mother won't mind
And me Father won't slight you
For your lack of kind
Then she stepped away from me
And this she did say
It will not be long love
'Til our wedding day.

She stepped away from me
And she moved through the Fair
And fondly I watched her
Move here and move there
And she went her way homeward
With one star awake
As the swans in the evening
Move over the lake

The people were saying
No two e'er were wed
But one has a sorrow
That never was said
And she smiled as she passed me
With her goods and her gear
And that was the last
That I saw of my dear.

I dreamed it last night
That my true love came in
So softly she entered
Her feet made no din
She came close beside me
And this she did say
It will not be long love
Till our wedding day

for your lack of kine...

Sorry these contain a number of errors.
I just like to read along as I listen.

@colinmcmb Yes! Why does everyone write this as 'lack of kind' which makes no sense, when 'lack of kine' (ie cattle) to imply that he's poor, is obvious?

@Chris Carter I have never heard it "lack of kine." On the other hand, "lack of kind" would indicate that he's an orphan with no living relatives, which would be rather more serious than simply being poor....

Excellent. Got a bit of Simple Minds Belfast Child about it to my ears

It's the same tune, different words of cause.

so nice '''

Sandy redefined passionate folk singing

An auld Scottish song....Loveliest version ....Saw Sandy in Dundee in the 70's.....

Haha.Get your tin hat ready.

its an old Irish folk song.

@Brian Lagan Yes it is.

1969.now is the same as the.

sandy was so wonderful at conveying emotion and making us think of our lives and so much more.
reading some other comments i realize many of us here are in our autumn years ,i have lost most of my closest friends before their time.
a beautiful song and one i will keep playing

This version is worth a listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWIaP0NnEOQ

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has a great version of this song also

There is a You Tube video from 1963 with Davey Graham performing this song in an "Indo-Irish" way; a way "borrowed" three years later by Jimmy Page, which he called "White Summer". This beautiful song has such a rich history, going back centuries.

Why is she not heralded as one of the greatest folk/rock female vocalists of all time? With the sensitivity of Joni Mitchel and the power of Grace Slick. At times the band reaches Fleetwood Mac greatness. Sad to pass at such a young age. Her power and talent passes exceeds many such a Janis Joplin who is in my humble uneducated opinion inferior to the Lady Sandy Denny. Thank you @chickenteriyakiboy for turning me on to her music. Fans of this should look into the Wicker Man soundtrack by Paul Giovanni.

Sandy Denny ,the best ,of the best, of the best.

Amazing!

Surely this is Judy dyble singing.

Pantengl

I am a non Westerner . Is this Celtic sound ?

Its a scottish/irish traditional song but the music is not necessarily celtic music.

roisin reilly Whatever it is , it is ' music ' to the ears ( laughter ) .

@roisin reilly It's not Scottish/Irish. It's Irish.

Wow. Her voice is incredible.

God bless dear Sandy.

Excellence. You do not often hear it.

Reminiscent of Great Society's "Sally Go Round the Roses" mixed with Fairport's own "Reynardine." And a dash of patchouli.

Its a shame theyre not better known outside the UK, 51 years old and have never heard them on American radio...luckily I discovered them on you tube a few years back...now I have most of their cd's....absolutely the best, I love them! If only I had a radio station!

you're listening to the wrong radio stations. Luckily there's internet radio now, you can get stations from all across the world.

Stunningly brilliant - Just Visiting - amazingtunes.com

this gals voice is like melted butter ,,sublime beauty ...xxx

Fairport at their very best,with their best ever line up

#ugottalisten2b4udie Last night she came to me my dead love came in,
so softly she came that her feet made no din. :'(

Beautiful

Thank you for everything,Sandy...

chills...this is so good.

The best female vocalist the UK has ever produced. RIP

I agree nobody can touch Sandy.

There's an emotional maturity and authenticity I hear in Sandy I don't hear as much in anyone else. And she had amazing control and accentuated in ways I've never heard. No one else makes me cry either for some reason, to me that's my ultimate litmus test.

...and no one mentioned Anne Briggs, the voice that made it popular.

katiejane garside, trish keenan

simple as that

RIP. Beautiful angel, Sandy Denny.

Hoor ik hier wat Simple Minds- Belfast child ?

same tune, different lyrics

This is junk for country bumpkins kids live in hut barns and spend their days talking with the chickens and smoking stuff , it's the excellence of the UK art , it's not music,but who cares...Uk the land of the chickens and barns where people live in huts,so what can they produce better...?

Sorry, could you just run that past me again.....?

and what stinking hole do you live in

It is clear that you have no sense of good music at all!

This music is almost unbearably beautiful. Combined with the passing of time, it has become, for me, a lament for lost youth and beauty. I can't help the tears welling-up, remembering the sunshine days of youth, of friends now gone, of the spirit of the age now gone.

@Train Sail so very very lovely of you to say and so very true.

@Lyn B I came back to listen and I enjoyed what you wrote. A new year approaches may you be blessed and meet new people on your journey. Merry Xmas from Santa Cruz.

@eric diamond o

I feel the same way. I can't even listen to Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

A classic song sung by a beautiful lady. Thank you

Her feet made no din