John Jacob Niles - American Folk Songs

Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair,
Her lips are something rosy fair,
The pertest (purest) face and the daintiest hands
I love the grass wheron she stands.
I love 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 leave me.
I go to Troublesome to mourn, to weep,
But satisfied I ne're can sleep;
I'll write her a note in a few little lines,
I'll suffer death ten thousand times.
Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair,
Her lips are something rosy fair,
The purtest (purest) face and the daintiest hands,
I love the grass whereon she stands.



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Writer(s): Traditional, Harry Roberts
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Go 'Way from My Window
  2. I Wonder as I Wander
  3. The Lass from the Low Countree
  4. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
  5. The Ballad of Barberry Ellen
  6. You Got to Cross That Lonesome Valley
  7. The Gypsy Laddie
  8. My Little Mohee
  9. The Death of Queen Jane
  10. Little Lullaby

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Altri album

  1. Little Black Star - Single
  2. My Precarious Life in the Public Domain
  3. American Folk Songs
  4. The Hangman - The Story of John Jacob Niles, Vol. 2 (Original Recordings)
  5. The Cuckoo - The Story of John Jacob Niles, Vol. 1 (Original Recordings)
  6. Folk Songs
  7. Lost Melodies (Hope Koehler Performs Songs of John Jacob Niles)
  8. Folk Song as Art Song: Mid Century Recordings
  9. The Boone-Tolliver Recordings
  10. Essential Folk Masters

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