Annie
Jun 8 2003, 02:02 PM
I am looking for the music for this traditional Scottish folk song. I heard it sung recently in a pub, by an Irish lady with a beautiful voice and would love to have the music. Can anyone help me
Fianna
Jun 10 2003, 12:41 PM
Love that song, it's beautiful. I've only heard it by Christy Moore, on his "Live At The Point" album, which is bloody amazin by the way!
I think by music you mean actual notation, but I'm not sure where u'd get that. I'll post the chords here anyway (am I allowed do that?), dunno if that's any help but that's all I know.
Am...........F............G...........Am
Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
.............F.........C.....E..( E7 )
Her lips are like some roses fair
.....................F.....C................E...( E7 )
She had the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
...............F......G...........Am
And I love the ground whereon she stands.
I love my love and well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes
I wish the day it soon would come
When she and I could be as one
I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep
For satisfied I ne'er can be
I write her a letter just a few short lines
And suffer death a thousand times
Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
Her lips are like some roses fair
She had the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
And I love the ground whereon she stands.
manfred
Jun 11 2003, 03:26 PM
Other / additional lyrics and some more info are here:
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/v/volkslieder/bitc.html