Black Is The Colour Tab uke di Mary Black

Am         C              G          Am
Black is the colour of my true loves hair

C        F        G           Em
Her lips are like some roses fair

                     F              G       Em
She's the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands

       Am        C      G           Am  
And I love the ground where on she stands.


Am          C         G       Am
 I love my love and well she knows

 C          F           G      Am
I love the ground where on she goes

 C         F       G         Em
I wish the day it soon would come

 A m          C       G     Am
when she and I could be as one.

KEY CHANGE IN LAST VERSE


D             G    A               D
I go to the clyde and I mourn and weep

           G  A          D
for satisfied I neer can be

                 G     A                 D              G   A
I write her a letter, just a few short lines and suffer death

             D
a thousand times.