Black Velvet Band

Black Velvet Band: Chords

Intro:
SOL

     SOL        
In a neat little town they call Belfast
                DO          RE7
Apprentice to a trade I was bound
    SOL                       
And many's an hour's sweet happiness
       RE7                       SOL
Have I spent in this neat little town
                      
A sad misfortune came over me
                   DO             RE7
Which caused me to stray from the land
     SOL
Far away from my friends and relations
  RE7                        SOL
Betrayed by the black velvet band
                         
Her eyes they shone like diamonds
                  DO           RE7
I thought her the queen of the land
        SOL
And her hair hung over her shoulders
     RE7                    SOL
Tied up with a black velvet band

  SOL
I took a stroll down Broadway
            DO          RE7
Meaning not long for to stay
     SOL
When who should I meet but this pretty fair maid
       RE7                     SOL
Came a traipsing along the highway

She was both fair and handsome
                DO          RE7
Her neck it was just like a swans'
        SOL         
And her hair is hung over her shoulder
     RE7                    SOL
Tied up with a black velvet band
                          
Her eyes they shone like diamonds
                  DO           RE7
I thought her the queen of the land
        SOL
And her hair hung over her shoulders
     RE7                    SOL
Tied up with a black velvet band

  SOL                                
I took a stroll with this pretty fair maid
                  DO         RE7
And the gentleman passing us by
       SOL
Well I knew she meant the doing of him
       RE7                       SOL
By the look in her roguish black eye

A gold watch she took from his pocket
                    DO      RE7
And placed it right into my hand
        SOL
And the very first thing I said was
     RE7                      SOL
Bad 'cess to the black velvet band

Her eyes they shone like diamonds
                  DO           RE7
I thought her the queen of the land
        SOL             
And her hair hung over her shoulders
     RE7                    SOL
Tied up with a black velvet band

  SOL
Before the judge and the jury
               DO      RE7
Next morning I had to appear
        SOL                  
And the judge he said to me 'Young man
     RE7            SOL
Your case is proven clear'

We'll give you seven years penal servitude
                 DO           RE7
To be spent far away from the land
     SOL                  
Far away from your friends and relations
  RE7                        SOL
Betrayed by the black velvet band

Her eyes they shone like diamonds
                  DO           RE7
I thought her the queen of the land
        SOL 
And her hair hung over her shoulders
     RE7                    SOL
Tied up with a black velvet band

        SOL
So come all you jolly young fellows
          DO      RE7
A warning take by me
     SOL                        
When you are out on the town, me lads
  RE7                  SOL
Beware of the pretty colleens
                                      
They'll feed you with strong drink, me lads
               DO       RE7
'Till you are unable to stand
        SOL                              
And the very first thing that you'll know me lads
       RE7                    SOL
You've landed in Van Diemen's Land

Her eyes they shone like diamonds
                 DO          RE7
Her neck, it was just like a swan
        SOL
And her hair, it hung over her shoulder
     RE7                    SOL     DO SOL
Tied up with a black velvet band 

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Black Velvet Band è un brano inciso dai Dubliners, contenuto nell'album A Drop of the Hard Stuff pubblicato nel 1967. Quarto disco di inediti per la band irlandese, è composto da pezzi inediti ed alcuni riadattamenti di brani del repertorio tradizionale celtico-irlandese. La canzone fa parte di questo sconfinato repertorio e racconta la storia dei deportati irlandesi nelle carceri australiane; il protagonista è un apprendista che, inconsapevolmente, diventa complice di un furto e finisce, insieme ad una donna, in un carcere in Tasmania!

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).