{"id":580,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T10:05:20","slug":"dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark is the Colour of my True Love&#8217;s Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Dark is the Colour of my True Love&#8217;s Hair<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-580-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/dark-is-the-colour-of-my-true-loves-hair.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Dark is the Colour of my True Love&#8217;s Hair.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 781509.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 3130.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> Song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Esther Warkov.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 02\/1978 &#8211; 03\/1978.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> Workshop.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> Mike Seeger.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dark is the colour of my true love&#8217;s hair<br \/>\nHer face is like some rose so fair<br \/>\nHer slenderest waist and her neatest hands<br \/>\nI love the ground she walks upon.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the river to mourn and weep<br \/>\nBut satisfied I could never be<br \/>\nI wrote a letter in a few short lines<br \/>\nI died a death a thousand times.<\/p>\n<p>Then I sat down and I wrote a song<br \/>\nI wrote it neat, and I wrote it long<br \/>\nAnd with every line I shed a tear<br \/>\nAnd the last line said, &#8216;Farewell, my dear.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So fare thee well, my own true love<br \/>\nI thought you were as true as the stars above<br \/>\nBut since pleasure on earth I can never see<br \/>\nI&#8217;d never do to you what you did to me.<\/p>\n<p>The winter is gone and the leaves are green<br \/>\nThe time has passed since we have been<br \/>\nBut I hope to God the day will come<br \/>\nWhen you and I will be as one.<\/p>\n<p>So dark is the color of my true love&#8217;s hair<br \/>\nHer face is like some rose so fair<br \/>\nHer slenderest waist and her neatest hands<br \/>\nI love the ground she walks upon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>This performance was recorded during a seminar in which Joe was joined by folksinger and scholar Mike Seeger, whose own performance of the song follows Joe&#8217;s. Mike&#8217;s song is not, however, the commonly-heard American variant, &#8216;Black is the color of my true love&#8217;s hair,&#8217; but a variant of the song Joe sings as My Boy Willie (Roud 273; Laws K12).<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Joe&#8217;s version of this song appears also to have an American origin. He told Kenneth Goldstein (UW 90-39.01) that he learned it from Se\u00e1n &#8216;ac Dhonncha, who in turn learned it from the Clare piper, Willie Clancy, who had himself learned it from the singing of Jean Ritchie whom he had encountered at a festival in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>This was recorded while Joe was Artist in Residence at University of Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}