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              
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   
Whereon she stands.

Instrumental: Gm7 | Gm7

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

Instrumental: Em Em7+ Em6 Em6

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7

              Gm7 | Gm7

  Gm7                                
I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep,
                               
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
              Em6 Em7+ Em6 Em6

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

Instrumental: Em Em7+ Em6 Em6

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7

              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7
              Gmadd9 Gm6 Gm7 Gm7

              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7
              Fmadd9 Fm6 Fm7 Fm7

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

Finger notations of chords (ukulele)

Gm for ukulele Gm7+ for ukulele Gm7 for ukulele Gm6 for ukulele Gm+ for ukulele A7 for ukulele Dm for ukulele Cmsus2 for ukulele Dmadd13- for ukulele Fm for ukulele Fm7 for ukulele Fm6 for ukulele Em for ukulele Em7 for ukulele Em6 for ukulele Emadd11 for ukulele Emadd9 for ukulele Cmadd9 for ukulele Dmadd9 for ukulele Em7+ for ukulele Gmadd9 for ukulele Fmadd9 for ukulele Cm for ukulele Gmadd11+ for ukulele

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