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

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Traditional Folk Song


Intro: Bm | Bm

Bm     Bm7+   Bm7 Bm6
Black, black, black
       Bm+  Bm     C#7         C#9-
Is the color of my true love’s hair.
F#m          Bm   Bm7  Bm6 Bm+ Bm
Her lips are like some roses fair,
            Emsus2             F#madd13- Bm
She has the sweetest smile and gentlest hands,
           Am Am7
I love the ground
Am6         G#m G#m7 G#m6 G#madd11 G#madd9/F#
Whereon she stands.

Instrumental: Bm7 | Bm7

  Bm7                Bm7/F# Bm7
I love my love and well she knows,
                     Bm7/F#   Bm7
I love the ground whereon she goes,
           Emadd9 F#madd9    Bm7
I wish the day it soon would come
             Bm7/E Bm7/D
When she and I
Bm7/E Bm7/C# Bm7
Could be as one.

Instrumental: G#m G#m7+ G#m6/F G#m/F

              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm9
              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm7

              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9
              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9

              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm9
              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm7

              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9
              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9

              Bm9 | Bm7

  Bm7                     Bm7/F#  Bm7
I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep,
                Bm7/F#      Bm7
But satisfied I never could sleep.
                 Emadd9         F#madd9   Bm7
I’ll write her a letter, just a few short lines
           Am               G#m
And suffer death a thousand times.

Instrumental: G#m G#m7+ G#m6 G#m
              G#m/F G#m7+/F G#m6/F G#m/F

Bm7               Bm7/F# Bm7              Bm7/F#
Black is the color of my true love’s hair.
             Bm7       Emadd9 F#madd9 Bm7
Her lips are like some roses fair,
           Em    F#m/A F#m/C# Bm7
I love the ground whereon she stands.

Instrumental: G#m G#m7+ G#m6/F G#m/F

              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm9
              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm7

              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9
              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9

              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm9
              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm7

              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9
              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9

              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm9
              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm7

              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9
              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9

              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm9
              Bmadd9 Bm6 Bm7 Bm7

              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9
              Amadd9 Am6 Am7 Am9

              Bmadd9 | Bmadd11+ Bm | Am | Am
              Bm | Bmadd11+ Bm | Am7 | Am9
              Bm
 
 

Finger notations of chords (guitar)

Bm for guitar Bm7+ for guitar Bm7 for guitar Bm6 for guitar Bm+ for guitar C#7 for guitar C#9- for guitar F#m for guitar Emsus2 for guitar F#madd13- for guitar Am for guitar Am7 for guitar Am6 for guitar G#m for guitar G#m7 for guitar G#m6 for guitar G#madd11 for guitar G#madd9/F# for guitar Bm7/F# for guitar Emadd9 for guitar F#madd9 for guitar Bm7/E for guitar Bm7/D for guitar Bm7/C# for guitar G#m7+ for guitar G#m6/F for guitar G#m/F for guitar Bmadd9 for guitar Bm9 for guitar Amadd9 for guitar Am9 for guitar G#m7+/F for guitar Em for guitar F#m/A for guitar F#m/C# for guitar Bmadd11+ for guitar

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