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BLACK VELVET BAND Misc. Traditional
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MikeA205 (report)
There exists several versions of lyrics like many of the auld irish songs.
Irish1 (report)
Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia
Irish1 (report)
Ps keep up the nice work CHORDIE
Irish1 (report)
I think the G ir right.
Here are the word I grew up on fifty years ago song by my irish family. Take em or leave em!
Well, I was out strolling one evening not meaning to go very far
When I met with a pretty young maid who was selling her trade in the bar.
She was both fair and handsome, her neck it was just like a swans
And her hair it hung over her shoulder, tied up with a black velvet band
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I took a stroll with this pretty fair maid, and a gentleman passing us
Well I knew she meant the doing of him, by the look in her roguish black eye
A gold watch she took from his pocket and placed it right in to my hand
And the very first thing that I said was bad luck to the black velvet band
Chorus
Before the judge and the jury, next morning I had to appear
The judge he says to me: "Young man, your case it is proven clear
We'll give you seven years penal servitude, to be spent faraway from the land
Far away from your friends and companions, betrayed by the black velvet band"
Chorus
So come all you jolly young fellows a warning take by me
When you are out on the town me lads, beware of them pretty colleen
For they feed you with strong drink, "Oh yeah", 'til you are unable to stand
And the very next thing that you'll know is you've landed in Van Diemens Land
Chorus
Suppeelsker (report)
"So come all ye jolly young fellows I'll have you take warnin' from me"
It should be a D om the last word there, not a G.