Paul Weller - Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)

"Black Is the Colour (of My True Love's Hair)" is a traditional folk song first known in the Appalachian Mountains region of the United States in 1915, but most probably originating from Scotland, as attributed to the reference to the Clyde in the song's lyrics lyrics : 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 And I love the ground whereon she stands I love my love and well she knows I love the ground whereon she goes I wish the day it soon would come When she and I will be as one I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep For satisfied I never can be I'll write her a letter just a few short lines And I owe death a thousand times Black is the color of my true love's hair Her lips are like red roses fair She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands And I love the ground whereon she stands