Ribbon of Darkness

Ribbon Of Darkness: Marty Robbins
Album - Marty Robbins All Time Greatest Hits -
#25 on BB Hot Country on COLUMBIA Records
in 1972. (#1 Country hit single in 1965.)
(Written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot.)
 
INTRO:
C F G F C
F C G C
 
#1.
C                       G
Ribbon of darkness over me..since my true love 
               C
walked out the door.
                    F     C         G             C
Tears I never had before..ribbon of darkness over me.
 
#2.
C                            G
Clouds are gathering over my head..that kill the 
                 C
day and hide the sun.
     F          C                 F     C
That shroud the night when day is done..ribbon of 
G             C
darkness over me.
 
BRIDGE:
Dm     G              C       Dm           G
Rain is falling on the meadow..where once my love 
          C
and I did lie.
Dm         G             C       Dm          G
Now, she is gone from the meadow..my love, goodbye.
 
#3.
C                       G   Dm            G
Ribbon of darkness over me, where once the world was 
         C
young as spring.
C                                       F     C
Where flowers did bloom and birds would sing..ribbon 
   G             C
of darkness over me.
 
INTERLUDE:
F G F C F C G C
 
BRIDGE:
Dm     G         C      Dm
In this cold room lying..don't want to see no one but 
C
you.
Dm     Em7            C      Dm       G
Lord, I wish I could be dying..to forget you.
 
#4.
C                           G
How I wish your heart could see, how mine just takes 
               C
and breaks all day.
F       C              F    C         G             C
Come on back and take away..ribbon of darkness over me.
 
OUTRO:
F       C              F    C         G             C
Come on back and take away..ribbon of darkness over me.
 
 
 
A sixties/seventies smash from Kraziekhat.