The New Blue Velvet Band-Hank Snow

[ti:The New Blue Velvet Band] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:The Early Hank Snow Vol.4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The New Blue Velvet Band - Hank Snow [00:06.51]Let me tell you a sad but true story [00:12.22]Let it be an example to man [00:17.99]How I tore down the world of my sweetheart [00:23.69]She was known as The Blue Velvet Band [00:29.44]On her cheeks were the first splash of nature [00:35.38]Her beauty it seemed to expand [00:40.93]Her golden hair hung in tresses [00:46.62]Tied back with a blue velvet band [00:52.47]But I boarded a tanker for Holland [00:57.64] [00:58.16]And accused her for loving some man [01:03.88]Still down in my heart she kept callin' [01:09.72]Come back to your Blue Velvet Band [01:15.49]As the sea-gull flew high up above me [01:21.22]In the path of the still red moonlight [01:26.83]I saw your face and awaked dear [01:32.69]Out here on the ocean tonight [01:38.45] [01:50.18]I was called to the bridge by our captain [01:56.02]His hand held a paper of white [02:01.70]This message just flashed o'er the wireless [02:07.32]And your darlin' is dying tonight [02:13.04]So I boarded a freighter in Cuba [02:18.66]To speed me back to her side [02:24.28]But the bell in the old country steeple [02:30.07]Soon told me my sweetheart had died [02:35.92]Heartbroken I knelt down and kissed her [02:41.58]The last time to hold her sweet hand [02:47.23]There still for the ring I had bought her [02:52.85]On her head was a blue velvet band