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Black is the colour of my true love's hair,
Her lips are like some roses fair;
The purest eyes and the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon she stands.
I go to the Clyde for to mourn and weep,
But satisfied I never can sleep;
I'll write to you in a few short lines,
I'll suffer death ten thousand times.
I know my love and well she knows,
I love the grass whereon she goes;
If she on earth no more I see,
My life will quickly fade away.
A winter's past and the leaves are green,
The time has past that we have seen;
But still I hope the time will come,
When you and I will be as one.
Black is the colour of my true love's hair,
Her lips are like some rosy fair;
The purest eyes and the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon she stands.
John Jacob Niles noted that Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair as sung in a version recorded in 1958 was composed between 1916 and 1921. He had come home from eastern Kentucky, singing this song to an entirely different tune -- a tune not unlike the public-domain material employed even today. His father liked the lyrics, but thought the tune was downright terrible. So he wrote himself a new tune, ending it in a nice modal manner. He ended his notes by saying that his composition has since been 'discovered' by many an aspiring folk-singer.
Clyde - River of southwest Scotland flowing about 171 km (106 mi) northwest to the Firth of Clyde, an estuary of the North Channel. The river is navigable to Glasgow for oceangoing vessels. - American Heritage Dictionary
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Black is the [F] colour [G] of my true loves [Am] hair,
Her lips are [F] like [G] some roses [Am] fair,
The purest [F] eyes [G] and the neatest [Am] hand,
I love the [F] ground [G] where on she [Am] stands.
