Black is the Color (of My True Loves Hair) Arr. by Jessica Comeau for Mountain Dulcimer

Black is the Color (of My True Love s Hair) is an Appalachian folk song collected by Cecil Sharp in 1917 and published in his anthology English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. This is a different melody from the one popularized by John Jacob Niles, which he composed himself. My version is much more akin to Betty Smith s rendition on Songs Traditionally Sung in North Carolina, but I must say that my arrangement owes much to Christy Moore s interpretation as well.