The Black Velvet Band
(A New Twist)

In a neat little town they call Belfast
Upon my love luck I was down
But hopeful was I that there I'd find
A wife for me in that fair town

Then one day as I was out walking
I spied her in shade 'neath a tree
So fair and sweet and innocent
Here at last was the true love for me

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Her eyes they shone like the diamonds
You'd think she was queen of the land (And she was!)
And around her dainty white silken throat
She fastened a black velvet band

She was the most beautiful maiden
On whom my eye would ever rest
And she said she would be my true lover
If I followed her only request

She said "I love you and I trust you
So I hope that you do understand
You may have all of me but don't ever touch
My decorative black velvet band"

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Her throat was as soft as a whisper
And as white as the pure driven snow
I simply had to chance kissing it
But first remove her velvet bow

I wandered and pondered for hours
Then to me the idea did creep
My best chance would come to slip it off
When this maiden was soundly asleep

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So, in the stillness and quiet of night-time
I moved with and unsteady hand
Across to my young lovers pillow
To steal away her velvet band

Her diamond eyes opened quiet startled
"You've not heeded what I have said"
Then her head twisted off of her lovely neck
And rolled away right off the bed

Her head, it bumped down the staircase
Out the doorway and into the street
Where it slid to a halt and I heard it call
"Come out here and get me, you creep"

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Well I hit the ground at a dead run
And I haven't stopped running for years
Now I 'm a rambler, A-roving alone
Another drunken balladeer

So come all of you jolly young fellows
I'll have you take warning by me
Don't be too blinded by beauty boys
There may be more that you don't see

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