Black Velvet Band-The Irish Masters

[ti:Black Velvet Band] [ar:The Irish Masters] [al:Worlds Greatest St Patricks Day - The only Irish Celtic Anthems Album you'll ever need ! - ( Folk / Pub / Drinking )] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black Velvet Band - The Irish Masters [00:00.26]In a neat little town they call Belfast [00:03.52] [00:04.55]Apprentice to trade I was bound [00:07.55] [00:08.18]How miss many an hours sweet happiness [00:11.71] [00:12.38]Have I spent in that neat little town [00:15.24] [00:16.35]A sad misfortune came over me [00:20.34]Which caused me to stray from the land [00:23.26] [00:23.91]Far away from me friends and relations [00:28.26]Betrayed by the black velvet band [00:31.22] [00:32.24]Her eyes they shone like diamonds [00:35.63] [00:36.26]I thought her the queen of the land [00:39.26] [00:39.91]And her hair it hung over her shoulder [00:44.06]Tied up with a black velvet band [00:47.38] [00:52.10]I took a walk down Broadway [00:55.49] [00:56.38]Meaning not long for to stay [00:59.01] [00:59.95]When who should I meet but this pretty fair [01:03.10]Maid comes a traipsing along the highway [01:06.86] [01:07.70]She was both fair and handsome [01:11.06] [01:11.71]Her neck it was just like a swan [01:14.67] [01:15.34]And her hair it hung over her shoulder [01:19.54]Tied up with a black velvet band [01:22.56] [01:23.54]Her eyes they shone like diamonds [01:26.68] [01:27.54]I thought her the queen of the land [01:30.49] [01:31.23]And her hair it hung over her shoulder [01:34.75] [01:35.33]Tied up with a black velvet band [01:38.47] [01:43.44]I took a walk with this pretty fair maid [01:47.34]And a gentleman passing us by [01:50.18] [01:50.90]Well I knew that she meant the doing of him [01:54.58] [01:55.17]By the look in her roguish black eye [01:57.92] [01:59.11]A gold watch she took from his pocket [02:02.03] [02:02.80]And placed it right in to my hand [02:05.80] [02:06.64]And the very next thing that I said [02:10.10]Was bad 'cess to the black velvet band [02:13.75] [02:14.91]Her eyes they shone like diamonds [02:18.25] [02:18.85]I thought her the queen of the land [02:21.84] [02:22.51]And her hair it hung over her shoulder [02:26.68]Tied up with a black velvet band [02:29.66] [02:34.75]Before the judge and the jury [02:37.85] [02:38.49]Next morning I had to appear [02:41.55] [02:42.39]And the judge he says to me [02:45.63]Young man your case it is proven quiet clear [02:49.69] [02:50.35]Are you get seven years penal servitude [02:54.03] [02:54.58]To be spent often faraway from the land [02:57.64] [02:58.32]Far away from your friends and relations [03:02.63]Betrayed by the black velvet band [03:05.54] [03:06.58]Her eyes they shone like diamonds [03:09.89] [03:10.43]I thought her the queen of the land [03:13.32] [03:14.34]And her hair it hung over her shoulder [03:18.57]Tied up with a black velvet band [03:21.66] [03:22.65]Her eyes they shone like diamonds [03:26.45]I thought her the queen of the land [03:29.60] [03:30.35]And her hair it hung over her shoulder [03:33.89] [03:34.45]Tied up with a black velvet band