She moved.

I took the night off from playing tonight. (Well, we did level up a level over on Velen on Palatine and Sunderella. The chat was driving me nuts though. Didn’t hear that many uses of the F-word since Scarface. I finally turned General Chat off.)

Anyway, after the wife went to bed I decided to just browse the internet. First looking at Azerothian maps to course out a questing strategies, alternate leveling routes for those tired of the same-ol’ same ol’ (such as we altoholics). Doing that I loaded up my Media Player and started listening to music.

That took me to looking up Pete Townshend (of the Who) and his album All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes on Wikipedia. I love his song North Country Girl. Which apparently derives from an earler Dylan song. Which then got me to thinking along those lines, I’m using Wiki here to jump connection to connection, and I found a song I’ve heard several artists do. But I didn’t know the lyrics.

“She Moved Through the Fair” or “She Moves Through the Fair” is based on a traditional Irish Folk song. Its original author is unknown. The song, a folk staple, has been performed by many artists, and its haunting tune and lyrics will be familiar to many.

My young love said to me my mother won’t mind
And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind
And she laid her hand on me and this she did say
It will not be long now ’til our wedding Day

And she went away from me, she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her move here and move there
And then she went onward, just one star awake
Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake

The people were saying no two e’er were wed
But one had 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, my dead love came in
So softly she came her feet made no din
And she laid her hand on me and this she did say
It will not be long now ’til our wedding day

Yeah, Warcraft nerd I am I got to thinking “Forsaken backstory.”

Version I know best is by B-Tribe (off their ¡Spiritual, Spiritual! album), and so then I listened to La Guapa (off B-Tribes Sensual, Sensual album).

That then leads to Gin Blossem’s Hey Jealousy, and on to The Judybat’s Waiting for the Rain and Liquid. Mint Royale’s Little Words. Nirvana’s Lithium, Smashing Pumpkins 1979. Moby’s Porcelain. Chemical Brother’s Surface to Air. Blind Melon’s No Rain. Collective Soul’s She Said that Time is Unfair. The Cure’s Cut Here. Oi Va Voi’s D’Ror Yikra. Adam Ant’s Wonderful. 10cc’s I’m Not in Love. William Shatner’s (yes) Common People. Oliver Mtukudzi’s Todii. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Oh What a Circus (from Evita). Four thousand, four hundred, seventy three songs to choose from. Where’s the time?? Touch and Go’s Life’s a Beach.

So what’s on your playlist?

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