Artist: Father Sydney MacEwan
Author: Herbert Hughes/Padraic Colum
Label: Moidart
Year: 1935
Scottish singer and priest. Irish traditional folk song from Donegal. Reissued on The Irish Songbook cd in the Balladeer Series on the English label Moidart.
Covers:
Margaret Barry [Peter Kennedy recording reissued on the Portrait series in the Alan Lomax Collection; Margaret spent her life moving from fair to fair]
Susan Reed [on Elektra]
Davy Graham [as She Moved Through The Bizarre (Blue Poppa)]
Yardbirds [with Jimmy Page as White Summer (also raga rock)]
Pete Brown & Piblokto [as Firesong on LP Things May Come And Things May Go But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever]
Van Morrison & The Chieftains [also as Marie's Wedding]
Simple Minds [in Belfast Child]
Chieftains with Sinéad O'Connor [and with Ry Cooder as He Moved Through The Fair]
Sarah Brightman [as He Moved Through The Fair]
Roger McGuinn [as Pete's Song featuring Pete Seeger]
Kathy Mattea [as He Moves Thru The Fair]
Dervish [vocal: Andrea Corr]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)