John Jacob Niles // Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair // I Wonder as I Wander // 1957

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Lyrics : (c'est, semble-t-il, une chanson traditionnelle des Apalaches, les paroles varient donc suivant les diverses versions...difficile de trouver celles qui correspondent à la version interprétée ici par John Jacob Niles)

Black, black, black
is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like a rose so fair
And the prettiest face and the neatest hands.
I love the grass whereon she stands
She with the wondrous hair.

Black, black, black
is the color of my true love's hair

Oh I do love my love and so well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes.
She with the wondrous hair.


Black, black, black
is the color of my true love's hair
Alone, my life would be so bare.
I would sigh, I would weep,
I would never fall asleep
My love is 'way beyond compare
She with the wondrous hair.


Black, black, black
is the color of my true love's hair.

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