Bloody Fingers - Luka Bloom Guitar Songs

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Black is the colour
Turf
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Michelle Kinkead(mmkinkead@bigfoot.com)
These chords are for standard tuning (EADGBE), but Luka's version is in DADGAD, 1/2 or 1 full step lower
It's a beautiful and haunting tune, and there are tons of versions throughout Ireland, the UK and America. The one on Turf seems to be based on an arrangement by a Scottish folk singer, Hamish Imlach.

Black is the colour

These basic chord fingerings sound kinda like the DADGAD version, and most of the notes seem to be picked on the lowest 4 strings or so. It's a great song to play around with, picking either more or fewer notes to suit your mood, or even strumming along. All suggestions very welcome

I put 2 versions for some chords just in case you don't want to stretch your 
fingers so much (and all chord names are very approximate!).

        Cm         Bm         Dm        Em           B7         C         D
E -------------------------------------------------------------0--3------0--5--- 
B -------------------------------------------------------------0--5------0--7--- 
G -----2--5-------2--4-------4--7-------0-2-0---------4-2------5--5------7--7--- 
D -----5--5-------4--4-------7--7-------2-------------1--------5--5------7--7--- 
A -----3--3-------2--2-------5--5-------2-------------2--------3--3------5--5--- 
E -----x--0-------x--0-------x--0-------0----------------------x--x------x--x--- 



             Cm   Bm       Dm          Em
Black is the colour  of my true love's  hair       
                    Cm  Dm              Em
And his/her lips are like   some rose so fair        
                     Cm   Dm                  Em
S/he has the sweetest smile  and the gentlest  hands      
               Cm    Bm      Dm      Em
And I love the ground  whereupon s/he stands              


           Cm  Bm    Dm       Em
I love my love  and well s/he knows           
               Cm    Dm           Em
And I love the ground whereon s/he goes            
            Cm  Dm             Em
I wish the day   it soon might come            
             Cm  Bm      Dm    Em
When s/he and I    might be as one                  


             Cm   Bm       Dm          Em
Black is the colour  of my true love's  hair       
                    Cm   Dm             Em
And his/her lips are like   some rose so fair        
                     Cm   Dm                  B7
S/he has the sweetest smile  and the gentlest  hands      
               Cm    Bm      Dm      C        D    C    Em    C    D    C    Em
And I love the ground  whereupon s/he stands    


               Cm   Bm   Dm         Em
I_ll go to the Clyde and  mourn and weep     
         Cm  Dm               Em
For satisfied   I never shall  be           
                 Cm   Dm                  Em
I write him/her a letter just a few short lines           
           Cm   Bm     Dm      Em
And suffer death  ten thousand times           


             Cm   Bm       Dm          Em
Black is the colour  of my true love's  hair       
                    Cm  Dm              Em
And his/her lips are like   some rose so fair        
                     Cm   Dm                  B7
S/he has the sweetest smile  and the gentlest  hands      
               Cm    Bm      Dm       C       D    C    Em    C    D    C    Em
And I love the ground  whereupon s/he stands