Black Is the Colour Chords by Christy Moore

Yeah, I was 1968 I was doing a gig in the Glasgow Folk [Gbm] Centre in Montrose Street
And I didn't go on till about 12 o'clock on a Saturday night
It was fairly late and the fellow that went on before me sang this song and when the concert was over
I said give us that old [Bbm] song would you and he did
_ _ Black [Gb] is the color
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] Our _ _ _ [Gb] lips are like
[Ab] Some _ [F] roses fair
She has the sweetest [Gb]
smile and [Ab] the _ [C] gentlest [F] hands
And I [Gb] love the ground
_ [Ab] _ Where on [Bb] she stands I _ [Gb] love my love
[Ab] _ Well, [Bb] she knows I _ [Gb] love the ground [Ab] Where on
[Cm] she [F] goes I
[Gb] Wish the day _ _ [Ab] It's so [F] But calm
when _ [Gb] she and I
[Ab] Could _ [Bbm] be as one _ _ I [Gb] go to the clay _
[Ab] I
[Bbm] mourn and we _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _
Satisfied [Ab] I
Never [F] can be
_ Then I [Gb] write her a letter
_ _ [Ab] Just a few [C] short lines
[F] _ And [Gb] suffer death _ [Ab] _ a thousand [Bbm] times
_ For black [Gb] is the color _ [Ab] of my true [Bb] love's hair our _ [Gb] lips alike
_ [Ab] Some _ [F] roses fair _
She has the [Gb] sweetest smile and [Ab] the
_ _ [F] _ _
Gentlest hands
And I [Gb] love the ground _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] she stand down _ _ by the clay one Saturday night in 1968 _ _ _ _
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