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BLACK IS THE COLOR from APPALACHIAN LOVE SONGS WOMEN’S REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, LOSS, AND STRENGTH
SSA A CAPPELLA
a traditional folk song adapted by
LINDA TUTAS HAUGEN
ephraim bay publishing
EBPC-C032
BLACK IS THE COLOR from
APPALACHIAN LOVE SONGS
for
SSA A Cappella
adapted and arranged by
LINDA TUTAS HAUGEN Appalachian Love Songs was commissioned in 2017-18 by a Consortium of American Choral Programs,
the Appalachian Folk Songs Women’s Choir Commissioning Consortium, Nana Wolfe-Hill, Wingate University, coordinator.
© Copyright 2018, Linda Tutas Haugen. All rights reserved. Ephraim Bay Publishing Co. – www.ephraimbaypublishing.com
Email: [email protected] Telephone: 612-454-7117 Cover Art and Photographs: Public Domain and Creative Commons
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Black Is the Color
Performance notes: This “round” can be performed a cappella, or with an instrumental accompaniment such as a dulcimer, guitar or piano; it also would be lovely with three flutes or clarinets each accompanying a vocal part or any combination of instruments listed. Program Notes
This folk song is the lament of a young woman over the death of her true love. Scholars believe the song originated in Scotland, based upon its reference to the river Clyde, where the young man drowned in a logging accident (the word “river” is substituted in this setting). The first verse is also very similar to two other songs, The Faithful Sailor Boy and Sweet William, both of whom were drowned at sea. Black Is the Color later became well known in the Appalachian Mountains. Alan Lomax calls this song an American “re-make of British material where the mountain people have woven a new song…touching it with passionate lyricism.”
This variant was first collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles in Appalachia in 1916, sung by Mrs. Lizzie Roberts in Hot Springs, NC. Later, Kentucky folk singer and collector John Jacob Niles wrote a different tune between 1916-21 simply because his father liked the lyrics, but thought the original tune was “terrible.” The Niles tune became popular and the gender also shifted to a male lamenting the death of a woman. However, this setting uses a slight variant of the lovely and haunting original tune.
Text:
But black is the color of my true love’s hair, His face is something wondrous fair, The prettiest eyes and the gentlest hands, I love the ground on which he stands.
The winter is passed and the leaves are green, The time is gone that we have seen, If you no more on this earth I see, I still hope one day to be with thee.
I go to the river for to mourn and weep, But satisfied I never could sleep, I’ll write you a letter in a few short lines, I’ll suffer death ten thousand times.
JoanBaezandBobDylan,1963.JoanBaezrecordedBlackIstheColorearlyinhercareer.
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Œ œ œ œ œBut black is the
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weyes
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Œ œ œ œI love the
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Œ œ œ œ œThe win ter is
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Arranged by LINDA TUTAS HAUGEN
BLACK IS THE COLOR
© 2018, Linda Tutas Haugen. All Rights Reserved.Ephraim Bay Publishing Co. - ephraimbaypublishing.com
TRADITIONAL AMERICAN
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œ œ ˙leaves are green,
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Œ œ œ œnThe time is
œ œ ˙leaves are green,
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wgone
Œ œ œ œnThe time is
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œ œn œ œ œthat we have
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wseen,
œ œn œ œ œthat we have
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Œ œ œ œnIf you no
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Œ œ œ œnIf you no
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œ œn œ œ œ œon this earth I
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wsee,
œ œn œ œ œ œon this earth I
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Œ œ œ œ œI still hope one
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.˙ œ œday to
Œ œ œ œ œI still hope one
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œ œ ˙be with thee.
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Œ œ œ œ œI go to the
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jœ .œ œ œ œri ver for to
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mourn and weep,
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Œ œ œ œnBut sat is
œ œ ˙mourn and weep,
jœ .œ œ œ œri ver for to
wfied
Œ œ œ œnBut sat is
œ œ ˙mourn and weep,
œ œn œ œ œI ne ver could
wfied
Œ œ œ œnBut sat is
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œ œn œ œ œI ne ver could
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Œ œ œ œn œI'll write you a
wsleep,
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Œ œ œ œn œI'll write you a
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œ œn œ œ œ œin a few short
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Œ œ œ œn œI'll write you a
wlines,
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death ten
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thou sand times.
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