"I was shocked at the range of her voice. She always sang this one song `Black Is the Color,' a Scottish song. It would make everyone silent. Everybody would just be in awe of her." ~ Thomas Beatty, chef at The Field

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Black Is The Colour
One
Hold On, I'm Coming
The Letter

Black Is The Colour

Traditional Folk Song
Performed live at The Field ~ no known audio recording
Other songs Carly performed at the Field included "Come Together" by the Beatles and U2 and Johnny Cash covers

But Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
His face is like some rosy fair,
The prettiest face and the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon he stands.
I love my love and well he knows,
I love the ground whereon he goes,
If you no more on earth I see,
I can't serve you as you have me.

The winter's passed and the leaves are green,
The time is passed that we have seen,
But still I hope the time will come
When you and I shall be as one.

I go to the Clyde for to mourn and weep,
But satisfied I never could sleep.
I'll write to you a few short lines,
I'll suffer death ten thousand times.

So fare you well, my own true love
The time has passed, but I wish you well.
But still I hope the time will come
When you and I will be as one.

I love my love and well he knows,
I love the ground whereon he goes.
The prettiest face, the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon he stands.

One

written by U2
Performed with Michael Johns live on the Ellen DeGeneres Show (5/6/08)

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One

Hold On, I'm Coming

written by Samuel David Moore and Dave Prater
Performed with Michael Johns live on the Ellen DeGeneres Show (5/6/08)

Don't you ever, feel sad
Lean on me, when the times are bad
When the day comes
And you're down
In a bit of trouble
And you bite the ground
Just hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming

I'm on my way, your lover
If you get cold, yeah, I will be your cover
Don't have to worry, cause I'm here
No need to suffer, baby
'Cause I'm here
Just hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming

Reach out to me, for satisfaction, yeah
Call my name, yeah, for reaction yeah yeah yeah
Yeah baby

Don't you ever, feel sad
Lean on me, when the times are bad
When the day comes
And you're down
In a bit of trouble
And you bite the ground
So hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming

Reach out to me, oh yeah, for satisfaction, yeah
Call my name, yeah, for reaction yeah yeah, yeah oh yeah

Hold on, I'm coming
Hold on, I'm coming

The Letter

written by Wayne Carson Thompson
Performed with Michael Johns live on the American Idol Finale (5/21/08)

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.

I don't care how much money I gotta spend,
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no mo'.
Listen mister can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once a-mo'--anyway...

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no mo'.
Listen mister can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once a-mo'--anyway...

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.
Because my baby just a-wrote me a letter.