Ciara Considine – Black Is The Colour – Celtic Traditional

 

A beautiful Celtic folk song sung and played by Ciara Considine.

Background: This is an old song dating with tune origins probably
dating to the 18th century. The lyrics were first recorded in around
1916 and believed to be out of the Appalacian Mountains, although it
is so fully engrained in the folk tradition that many believe it to be
out of Scotland as attibuted by the verse “I’ll go to the Clyde” which
is a river that runs through Glasgow.

Black Is The Color

Black is the color of my true love’s hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands

I love my love and well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes.
And I wish the day, it soon will come
That she and I will be as one

I’ll go to the Clyde and I’ll mourn and weep
Where satisfied I never shall be
I’ll write her a letter, just a few short lines
And suffer death ten thousand times