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Thread #35071   Message #476447
Posted By: GUEST,Tenor Chad
04-Jun-01 - 09:37 PM
Thread Name: Help: 'Black is the color' verse question...
Subject: 'Black is the color' verse question...
Hello, everyone, my name is Chad, I just graduated from West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida and I'll be having an audition for the FSU school of music this month. I plan on singing: Passing By (Purcell), Gia'il Sole Del Gange (Scarlatti), On Richmond Hill There Lives a Lass (James Hook) and Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (JJ Niles). Anyhow, just thought I'd share, but I have a question on a verse in "Black is the color of my true love's hair"... When it goes "I go to Troublesome (the river) to mourn, to weep, but satisfied I ne'er can sleep; I'll write her a note in a few little lines, I'll suffer death ten thousand times".. What the heck is that all about? Anybody know? Can ya help a tenor out? ;o)

--Chadly