{"id":7390,"date":"2011-10-01T06:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T10:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:48:35","slug":"black-is-the-color-of-my-true-loves-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7390","title":{"rendered":"Black Is The Color Of My True Love&#8217;s Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Black_Is_The_Color.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Black_Is_The_Color.mp3\">Black Is The Color Of My True Love&#8217;s Hair &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nBlack Is The Color Of My True Love&#8217;s Hair &#8211; 3103 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roud_Folk_Song_Index\">Roud Folk Song Index<\/a> is a traditional song that is widely believed to have originated in Scotland. Some versions are addressed to females and others to males. Nina Simone made it popular in the mid 20th century and her version was used in the 1993 Bridget Fonda film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_of_No_Return_%28film%29\">Point of No Return<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[Em] Black is the color of my [D] true love&#8217;s [Em] hair<br \/>\nHer lips are like some [Am] rosy [D] fair<br \/>\n[Em] The purest [D] eyes and the [Em] neatest hands<br \/>\nI love the ground whereon [D] she stands<\/p>\n<p>I go to the Clyde for to mourn and weep<br \/>\nBut satisfied I never can sleep<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll write to you in a few short lines<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll suffer death ten thousand times<\/p>\n<p>I know my love and well she knows<br \/>\nI love the grass whereon she goes<br \/>\nIf she on earth no more I see<br \/>\nMy life will quickly fade away<\/p>\n<p>A winter&#8217;s past and the leaves are green<br \/>\nThe time has past that we have seen<br \/>\nBut still I hope the time will come<br \/>\nWhen you and I will be as one<\/p>\n<p>Black is the color of my true love&#8217;s hair<br \/>\nHer lips are like some rosy fair<br \/>\nThe purest eyes and the neatest hands<br \/>\nI love the ground whereon she stands<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Black Is The Color Of My True Love&#8217;s Hair &#8211; Click To Play Black Is The Color Of My True Love&#8217;s Hair &#8211; 3103 in the Roud Folk Song Index is a traditional song that is widely believed to have originated in Scotland. Some versions are addressed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Is The Color Of My True Love&#8217;s Hair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}