Song Description

Ancient Irish Air. A frequent wedding request because of its haunting melody. This is a Celtic harp and fiddle duet played as an instrumental, but if the lyrics were sung, they tell of a man who is in love with a woman who died and visits him at night as

Lyrics

This is a Celtic harp and fiddle duet played as an instrumental, but the words to this song are:

My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind
And my father woun'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 I fondly watched her move here and move ther,
And then she went homeward with one star awake,
As the swan in the evening moves over the lake.

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

Last night she came to me, she came softly in,
So softly she came that her feet made no din,
And she laid her hand on me and this she did say,
"It willnot be long, love, 'til our wedding day."

You see, the man singing this song is in love with a woman who died and visits him at night as a ghost.