Black Is The Colour


Information:
  • Black Is The Colour is a song about someone whose love has failed to return.
     
  • The Corrs performed the song in Paris and Bonn in June 2005.
     
Written By:
  • There is no definitive information regarding the writer of Black Is The Colour however the song was first known in the Appalachian Mountains in the US in 1915 and is believed to have originated from Scotland.
     


Lyrics:
Black is the colour of my true loves hair
His lips are like some roses fair
He has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
And I love the ground whereon he stands
I love my love and well he knows
I love the ground whereon he goes
I wish that day would soon come
When he and I can be as one

I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep
For satisfied I never sleep
I write him letters just a few short lines
And I suffer death ten thousand times

Black is the colour of my true loves hair
His lips are like some roses fair
He has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
And I love the ground whereon he stands
I love the ground whereon he stands
I love I love I love the ground whereon he stands



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