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GUEST,kilshannig Origin: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (99* d) black is the color?from where? 21 Mar 01

ofcourse, Christy Moore did a fine job by singing this song (as did Luka Bloom, Nina Simone, Jo Stafford e.o.)
But where does it come from? I know (or suspect) it is old english and the came to the states...?
Please help me out on this one.

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