Bert Jansch - She Moved Through The Fair ( Live at Sheffield Memorial Hall April 2006)

[@blindpew69]

Such a great tune - that descending pattern on the C chord is really haunting (appropriately!) and was used by Bert in several songs.

[@PaulMaripaul]

What a fine version of this old classic, what a loss Bert is to the folk blues scene.

[@danholliday5564]

Bah. I'm from Sheffield and would have been here had I discovered this man's music earlier. Rest in peace.

[@robsgarage4746]

I can listen to this guy all night....

[@yvonnedesrosiers4432]

Damn I really miss Bert. Such inspiring picking and what a beautifully haunting voice. I stumbled across a Pentagle LP at the local library in South Bend, In as an adolescent in the 60's. My love of Celtic music was spawned.

[@tomchristian7781]

As a high schooler in 1970 I happened to hear Pentangle on the "underground" FM station in Phoenix, AZ. Haven't stopped listening or collecting.

[@obscurebandfan]

I can shed tears to this if I'm drunk enough.

[@danielnietourena416]

I feel deep admiration for that way of playing acoustic guitar. Bert was one of the best.

[@jimmurphy4083]

The best version I have every heard, beautiful.

[@robertcommon6974]

It is typically graceful of her, and also thoroughly appropriate, that Loreena McKennitt gives credit to the poet who composed the lyrics. In the introduction to "Collected Poems of Padraic Colum" (1953) John L. Sweeney writes of Colum that "oddly enough he will be remembered by many who (as Yeats noted) have never heard his name. At least one of his poems "She Moved Through the Fair", with an air composed by the late Herbert Hughes, has so securely acquired the status of folksong that it has been collected as such."

[@josefinagarza241]

Quite lovely written and sung by many❤

[@mrrockerjim]

i dont need to be drunk to cry listening to this :)

[@robhead22]

Beautiful!! Thank you!

[@jimmurphy4083]

The best version of this song ever, RIP Bert.

[@stevetugwell9599]

Lovely version but for me the Sandy Denny is just about perfect

[@tomchristian7781]

Another beautiful version; kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYrOoK2PmJuqnNU

[@insaneAlchemyOfeviI]

Soooooooooooo FABULOUS ......!!!!!

[@ericglock6932]

I totally thought it was a ghost story too: me and Jaquie McShee!

[@cricklekid]

Wonderful rendition. However, it must be said that he doesn't sing the last, so important, mystical 'ghost' verse (which tells of the dreamed visitation of his love who promises that they will wed in the hereafter) Instead, Bert chooses to repeat the first verse.

[@MSYNGWIE12]

This IS a ghost story is it not? Anybody who sings it says, "my dead love came in..." It's my favorite lament whatever the case. I miss Bert, he changed the landscape of British folk and I suppose American too.

[@avtobus1234]

yeah I think Bert added in the end something like "it's a fine ghost story" jokingly, didn't he?

[@TheWooTubes]

I've been doing some digging. It seems to have been a traditional song with the last verse added by the poet in whose name it was published. He seems to have made it ghostly. I found another version in which she elopes with another man.

[@josefinagarza241]

​@@TheWooTubes i understood that it was s dream❤

[@TheWooTubes]

@@josefinagarza241 It's a long running meme in folk music from the British Isles for a loved one who has died to 'seem to' spend the night with their lover (in a dream or as a ghost) before they hear the bad news. When they wake, their lover has gone and the news arrives.

[@richardtofts8546]

I took this to be a ghost story too

[@barryriley4987]

Vocals Sandy Denny Fairport convention

[@urgulp1554]

I wonder what tuning he is in?

[@only_interpretations991]

I believe standard...I was watching this and trying it on my acoustic, plus referencing some tab from others found from a Google search...just need to capo on third fret. tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/bert_jansch/she_moved_through_the_fair_tabs_110602 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIGYi6GefsRgaJY

[@urgulp1554]

Cheers!

[@cicobuffy]

Yes, I reckon normal too. Many versions in DADGAD. YOU FIND

[@anthonyhill4272]

Ur gulp definitely standard, with a capo on the third fret

[@PaulMaripaul]

Normal tuning as I can play it, looking at his fingering ☺️

[@goodun2974]

Very nice guitar playing, but I'm partial to the Richard Thompson version, which has an appropriately "spooky" vibe. It's a ghost story after all!

[@MrZipdang]

It totally is a ghost story!

[@gunillaclancy2818]

horrible you have to be Irish to sing this worst version ever

[@jeevesponzi5257]

Beautiful interpretation ,nasty comment.

[@hottunasandwich]

Bollocks

[@hottunasandwich]

Bert is sheer genius

[@tomtiddler1]

Philistine!

[@jamesdevlin6373]

I'm Irish but don't agree, Sineads version is shite, Sandy's version is much better than her's. I like his playing but no so much his singing, Van's is better.