{"id":28168,"date":"2026-01-04T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28168"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:47:16","slug":"ribbon-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/ribbon-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ribbon Of Darkness: Marty Robbins\r\nAlbum - Marty Robbins All Time Greatest Hits -\r\n#25 on BB Hot Country on COLUMBIA Records\r\nin 1972. (#1 Country hit single in 1965.)\r\n(Written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot.)\r\n \r\nINTRO:\r\nC<\/span> F<\/span> G<\/span> F<\/span> C<\/span>\r\nF<\/span> C<\/span> G<\/span> C<\/span>\r\n \r\n#1.\r\nC<\/span>                       G<\/span>\r\nRibbon of darkness over me..since my true love \r\n               C<\/span>\r\nwalked out the door.\r\n                    F<\/span>     C<\/span>         G<\/span>             C<\/span>\r\nTears I never had before..ribbon of darkness over me.\r\n \r\n#2.\r\nC<\/span>                            G<\/span>\r\nClouds are gathering over my head..that kill the \r\n                 C<\/span>\r\nday and hide the sun.\r\n     F<\/span>          C<\/span>                 F<\/span>     C<\/span>\r\nThat shroud the night when day is done..ribbon of \r\nG<\/span>             C<\/span>\r\ndarkness over me.\r\n \r\nBRIDGE:\r\nDm<\/span>     G<\/span>              C<\/span>       Dm<\/span>           G<\/span>\r\nRain is falling on the meadow..where once my love \r\n          C<\/span>\r\nand I did lie.\r\nDm<\/span>         G<\/span>             C<\/span>       Dm<\/span>          G<\/span>\r\nNow, she is gone from the meadow..my love, goodbye.\r\n \r\n#3.\r\nC<\/span>                       G<\/span>   Dm<\/span>            G<\/span>\r\nRibbon of darkness over me, where once the world was \r\n         C<\/span>\r\nyoung as spring.\r\nC<\/span>                                       F<\/span>     C<\/span>\r\nWhere flowers did bloom and birds would sing..ribbon \r\n   G<\/span>             C<\/span>\r\nof darkness over me.\r\n \r\nINTERLUDE:\r\nF G F C F C G C\r\n \r\nBRIDGE:\r\nDm     G         C      Dm\r\nIn this cold room lying..don't want to see no one but \r\nC\r\nyou.\r\nDm     Em7            C      Dm       G\r\nLord, I wish I could be dying..to forget you.\r\n \r\n#4.\r\nC                           G\r\nHow I wish your heart could see, how mine just takes \r\n               C\r\nand breaks all day.\r\nF       C              F    C         G             C\r\nCome on back and take away..ribbon of darkness over me.\r\n \r\nOUTRO:\r\nF       C              F    C         G             C\r\nCome on back and take away..ribbon of darkness over me.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nA sixties\/seventies smash from Kraziekhat.<\/pre>\n
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