Black Is The Colour of my True Love's Hair

from The Selkie: A Song of Many Waters by Fay Roberts

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Said to originally be Scottish, there are two tunes and dozens of lyric combinations. This, again, is the one I learned as a child. At least, the first two verses are. The third is mine.

Accompanies Skins and is the theme for The Kelpie.

lyrics

Black is the color of my true love’s hair
Her face is something wondrous fair
The purest eyes, the fairest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands...

I love my love, and well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes
And still I hope the time will come
When she and I will be as one.

Black is the colour of my true love’s heart
She thinks that she is very smart
But wherever she wanders in distant far lands
I’ll find the ground whereon she stands...

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from The Selkie: A Song of Many Waters, released July 31, 2018

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