Owain Phyfe - She Moved Through the Fair / Once I Had a Sweetheart lyrics

My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind, and my father won't slight you for your lack of kind." She came close beside 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 She traveled so slowly with one star awake, like the swan in the evening moves over the lake Last night she came to me, my young 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, 'til our wedding day." ........................... Once I had a sweetheart, but now I have none She's gone and leave me to sorrow and moan Last night in sweet slumber I dreamed I did see, my own precious j**el sat smiling by me And when I awakened I found it not so My eyes like some fountain the tears overflow I've traveled through England, through France, and through Spain All my life I will travel the watery main