Misc Traditional - Black Velvet Band (First Version)
 Misc Traditional - Black Velvet Band First Version: chords and tabs for the song. Watch chords and tablatures for all songs of the singer (group) Misc Traditional. Other chords and tabs for the "Black Velvet Band" can find at the bottom of the page. G D In a neat little town they call Belfast apprenticed to trade I was bound G Em C D G And many an hour of sweet happiness I spent in that neat little town G D Till bad misfortune came over me and caused me to stray from the land G Em C D G Far away from me friends and relations me followed the Black Velvet Band G Her eyes they shown like the diamonds D You'd think she was queen of the land G Em And her hair hung over her shoulder C D G Tied up with a Black Velvet Band G D Well I went out strolling one evening not meaning to go very far G Em C D G When I met with a fickle-some damsel she was plying her trade in a bar G D When a watch she took from a cutomer and slipped it right into me hand G Em C D G And the law it came and arrested me bad luck to your Black Velvet Band G D This mornin' before judge and jury a trial I had to appear G Em C D G And the judge he says "me young fellow" the case against you is quite clear G D And seven long years is your sentence you're going to Van Daemons Land G Em C D G Far away from your friends and relations and follow the Black Velvet Band G G So come all ye jolly young fellows I'll have you take warnin' from me G Em C D G Whenever you're into the liquor me lads beware of the pretty colleen G D For they'll fill you with whiskey and porter till you are not able to stand G Em C D G And the very next thing that you know me lads you've landed in Van Daemon's Land ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | submitted by | Some of you may be surprised to learn that if a | | | sperm were the size of a salmon it would be | | | swimming its seven inch journey at five hundred | | jonas reitz | miles per hour. If a sperm were the size of a | | | whale, however, it would be swimming a fifteen | | | thousand miles per hour or mach twenty. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
