Brevard Renaissance Fair 2021: Music The Gathering (1) - Shady Grove - video Dailymotion

Music The Gathering performs 'Shady Grove' at the 2021 Brevard Renaissance Fair in Melbourne, Florida.

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00:00They're all combined together by the same music so a lot of times as songs

00:03travel and tunes travel from country to country or into new colonies new stories

00:08will be told over the same melodies so we've taken three of those the earliest

00:12being The Mermaid and then over to Matty Groves and then to the new world at

00:16Shady Grove where our characters three will meet in the Shady Grove

00:19It's just gonna be my permanent face

00:27one two three

00:49some come here to fiddle and dance some come here to tarry some come here to fiddle and dance I came here to marry

01:02come home with me little Matty Groves come home with me tonight

01:07come home with me little Matty Groves and sleep with me till late

01:13last Easter in the morning fair we were not far from then we spied a mermaid sitting on a rock

01:23with a comb and a glass in her hand in her hand with a comb and a glass in her hand

01:30Shady Grove my little love Shady Grove I know Shady Grove my little love I'm bound for Shady Grove

01:40Beaches in the summertime Apples in the fall

01:57If I can't have the girl I love I don't want none at all

02:03Up in the store for Donald Trump I've never known to speak so free

02:08I'd rather a kiss from dead Matty's lips than you and your finery

02:14Last night last night the moon shone bright and you know that she had sons five

02:20Tonight she may walk in the strong salt way and find but one alive alive

02:27Shady Grove my little love Shady Grove I know Shady Grove my little love Shady Grove I know Shady Grove my little love I'm bound for Shady Grove

02:50Baby grows