Gregory Porter: "Black Is the Color (of My True Love’s Hair)"

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Traditional Folk Song


Intro: Gm | Gm

Gm     Gm7+   Gm7 Gm6
Black, black, black
       Gm+  Gm     A7          A9-
Is the color of my true love’s hair.
Dm           Gm   Gm7  Gm6 Gm+ Gm
Her lips are like some roses fair,
            Cmsus2             Dmadd13- Gm
She has the sweetest smile and gentlest hands,
           Fm Fm7
I love the ground
Fm6         Em  Em7  Em6  Emadd11  Emadd9/D
Whereon she stands.

Instrumental: Gm7 | Gm7

  Gm7                Gm7/D  Gm7
I love my love and well she knows,
                     Gm7/D    Gm7
I love the ground whereon she goes,
           Cmadd9 Dmadd9     Gm7
I wish the day it soon would come
             Gm7/C Gm7/Bb
When she and I
Gm7/C Gm7/A  Gm7
Could be as one.

Instrumental: Em Em7+ Em6/C# Em/C#

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm9
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm9
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9

              Gm9 | Gm7

  Gm7                     Gm7/D   Gm7
I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep,
                Gm7/D       Gm7
But satisfied I never could sleep.
                 Cmadd9         Dmadd9    Gm7
I’ll write her a letter, just a few short lines
           Fm               Em
And suffer death a thousand times.

Instrumental: Em Em7+ Em6 Em
              Em/C# Em7+/C# Em6/C# Em/C#

Gm7               Gm7/D  Gm7              Gm7/D
Black is the color of my true love’s hair.
             Gm7       Cmadd9 Dmadd9 Gm7
Her lips are like some roses fair,
           Cm    Dm/F  Dm/A   Gm7
I love the ground whereon she stands.

Instrumental: Em Em7+ Em6/C# Em/C#

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm9
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm9
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm9
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm9
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm9

              Gmadd9 | Gmadd11+ Gm | Fm | Fm
              Gm | Gmadd11+ Gm | Fm7 | Fm9
              Gm
 
 

Finger notations of chords (guitar)

Gm for guitar Gm7+ for guitar Gm7 for guitar Gm6 for guitar Gm+ for guitar A7 for guitar A9- for guitar Dm for guitar Cmsus2 for guitar Dmadd13- for guitar Fm for guitar Fm7 for guitar Fm6 for guitar Em for guitar Em7 for guitar Em6 for guitar Emadd11 for guitar Emadd9/D for guitar Gm7/D for guitar Cmadd9 for guitar Dmadd9 for guitar Gm7/C for guitar Gm7/Bb for guitar Gm7/A for guitar Em7+ for guitar Em6/C# for guitar Em/C# for guitar Gmadd9 for guitar Gm9 for guitar Fmadd9 for guitar Fm9 for guitar Em7+/C# for guitar Cm for guitar Dm/F for guitar Dm/A for guitar Gmadd11+ for guitar

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