Chords for Christy Moore Black is the Colour

_ [F] _ _ _ _ Black is [Gb] the color _ [Ab] _ of my true [Bbm] love's hair
Her _ _ [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] _ _ whereon [Bb] she stands
I _ love [Gb] my love, _ [Ab] _ well [Bb] she knows
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_ [Bbm] _ I love [Gb] the ground _
_ _ [Ab] _ whereon [Cm] she [F] goes
_ _ I wish the [Gb] _ _
day, [Ab] it soon _ [F] would come
When _ _ [Gb] she and I [Ab] _ could be [Bbm] as one
_ _ _ I go to [Gb] the Clyde, _ I [Bbm] mourn and weep _
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Satisfied [Ab] I _ never [F] can be
[F] _ Then I write [Gb] her a letter, _ _ [Ab] just a few _ [C] short lines
_ [F] And _ [Gb] suffer death _ [Ab] _ a [Bbm] thousand _ times
For black is [Gb] the color _ _ [Ab] of my true [Bb] love's hair
Her _ _ lips [Gb] are _ _ like [Ab] some _ [F] roses fair
_ _ She has the sweetest [Gb] smile _ and [Ab] the _ _ [F] gentlest hands
_ _ And I love [Gb] the ground _ [Ab] _ _ whereon [Bb] she stands
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Done by the Clyde one Saturday night in 1968 _ _ _ _
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