Black Is The Color Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vphi 

Cover art for Black Is The Color lyrics by Joan Baez

isn't it beautiful? I love the 1962 version most - in 1959 "Folksingers Round Harvard Square" Joan was still too young to artfully measure the emotion too raw. If you compare this folk (or maybe J. J. Niles's, too) song to William Shakespeare's Sonnet XC, the song is perfect translation to wilder and less ornate language of music.