The Black Velvet Band Chords by The High Kings

[C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] In a neat little town they called _ Belfast,
_ _ Apprentice to trade I [D] was bound. _ _ _
[G] Oh, many _ an hour's sweet _ happiness
_ [C] Have I spent in that [F#] neat [C] little town. _
_ [G] But a sadness fortune came over me,
Which caused me to stray from the land. _ _
Far away from my friends and _ _ relations,
_ _ [Em] _ Betrayed [D] by the black [C] velvet band. _ _
[G] Her eyes they shone like diamonds,
_ I thought her the queen of [D] the land.
[G] And her hair hung over her shoulder,
Tied up with a [D] black [C] velvet band. _ _ _ _ _
[G] I took a stroll down Broadway,
_ Oh, meaning not long for to [D]
stay.
[G] When who should I meet but this pretty fair maid,
Come a [D]-tracing along [C] the highway.
_ _ [G] She was both fair and handsome,
Her neck it was just like a [D] swan.
_ [G] And her hair hung over [Em] her [Bm] shoulder,
Tied [Am] up [D] with a black [G] velvet band.
_ Her eyes they shone like diamonds,
I thought her the queen [D] of the land.
_ [G] And her hair hung over her shoulder,
Tied [Am] up [G] with a black velvet [C] band.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[G] So I took a stroll with this pretty fair maid,
And a gentleman passing [D] us by. _
[G] Oh, I knew [D] that she'd find [Em] the undoing of him,
[C] By the look [D] in her ruggish [Am] black [C] eye.
[G] A gold watch he took from his pocket, _
And slipped it right into my [D] hand.
[G] And the very first [D] thing [Em] that I said was,
[Am] [D] Access to the black [G] velvet band. _
Her eyes they shone like diamonds,
I thought her the queen [D] of the land.
[G] And her hair hung over her shoulder,
[Am] Tied up [D] with a black [G] velvet band. _
_ _ _ _ Seven long years being a _ servitude,
I spent down in Van [Dm] Diemen's land,
_ [G] Far away from my friends and _ _ relation. _ _
_ Betrayed by the black velvet _ band.
[A] Her eyes they shone like diamonds, _
I thought her the queen [E] of the land. _
[A] And her hair hung over her [F#m] shoulder,
[Bm] Tied up [E] with a black [D] velvet band. _
[A] Her eyes they shone like diamonds, _
I thought her the queen [E] of the land. _
[A] And her hair hung over her _ shoulder,
_ _ _ _ [F#m] Tied [B] up with [E] a black velvet [A] band. _ _