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In a neat little town they call |
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BelfastApprenticed to trade |
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I was bound |
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Oh many an hour's sweet happiness |
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Have I spent in that neat little town |
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But a sad misfortune came over me |
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Which caused me to stray from the land |
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Far away from my friends and relations |
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Betrayed by the black velvet band |
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Chorus (after each verse): |
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Her eyes, they shone like diamonds |
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I thought her the queen of the land |
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And her hair, it hung over her shoulder |
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Tied up with a black velvet band |
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I took a stroll down |
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BroadwayOh meaning not long for to stay |
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When who should |
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I meet but this pretty fair maid |
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Come a-traipsing along the highway |
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She was both fair and handsome |
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Her neck, it was just like a swan's |
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And her hair, it hung over her shoulder |
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Tied up with a black velvet band(Chorus) |
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So I took a stroll with this pretty fair maid |
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And a gentleman, passing us by |
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Oh I knew that she meant the undoing of him |
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By the look in her roguish black eye |
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A gold watch she took from his pocket |
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And slipped it right into my hand |
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And the very first thing that |
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I said was"Bad cess to the black velvet band"(Chorus) |
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Seven long years' penal servitude |
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I spent down in |
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Van Dieman's |
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LandFar away from my friends and relations |
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Betrayed by the black velvet band(Chorus 2x)1 |
