Intro: Am

Verse 1:
             F            G           Am
Black is the colour of my true love's hair
             F      G       Am
Her lips are like a rose so fair
                       F            G        Am
She's got the sweetest face and the gentlest hands
           F           G      Am
I love the ground whereon she stands

Verse 2:
          F        G        Am
I love my love and well she knows
           F           G      Am
I love the ground whereon she goes
          F        G         Am
And how I wish the day would come
             F     G     F
When she and I can be as one

Verse 3:
G            Am           G           Am
Black is the colour of my true love's hair
             F      G       Am
Her lips are like a rose so fair
                       F            G        Am
She's got the sweetest face and the gentlest hands
           F           G      D
I love the ground whereon she stands

Interlude:
                  Am
Oooh, whereon she stands
F                 D
Oooh, whereon she stands
F                 Dm
Oooh, whereon she stands
Am                F
Oooh, whereon she stands
Dm                Am
Oooh, whereon she stands

Verse 4:
            F         G         Am
I go to the Clyde and mourn and weep
     F      G          Am
Satisfied I never will sleep
                 F              G         Am
I'll write her a letter, just a few short lines
           F          G        Am
And suffer death, ten thousand times

Verse 5:
             F            G           Am
Black is the colour of my true love's hair
             F      G       Am
Her lips are like a rose so fair
                       F            G        Am
She's got the sweetest face and the gentlest hands
           F           G      F
I love the ground whereon she stands

Outro:
  G        F           G      F
I love the ground whereon she stands

Outro: G F G F G F G F G F G F G F G F
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