This is my 1st tab! Sorry if theres any typo's! Theres a key change in the last verse,
 which I think suits it verry well!! cappo on 1st frett.




 Am9       C              G          Am9
Black is the colour of my true loves hair

C        F        G           Em9
Her lips are like some roses fair

                     F              G       Em9
She's the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands

       Am9      C      G           Am9
And I love the ground where on she stands.


Am9       C         G       Am9
 I love my love and well she knows

 C          F           G      Am9
I love the ground where on she goes

 C         F       G         Em9
I wish the day it soon would come

 Am9        C       G     Am9
when she and I could be as one.

(KEY CHANGE IN LAST VERSE, OPTIONAL)


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.