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Thread #60570   Message #1000687
Posted By: IanC
12-Aug-03 - 04:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Black Velvet Band (variations)
Subject: Black Velvet Band lyrics (variations)
I needed somewhere to leave a variety of versions of BvB for another project (thread) and this looks like the ideal spot.

If anyone has them, I haven't got the version noted by Peter Kennedy from Paddy Doran, Tinker, Belfast 1952 or the version recorded by Seamus Ennis from Ben Baxter, Southrepps, Norfolk, 1955. Nor do I have the version recorded by Edith Fowke from George McCallum in Grafton, Ontario, March 1961.

Otherwise, here are most of the rest that have been recorded or noted from tradition, starting with a copy of the broadside version. (This is not including the New Zealand version or the Blue Velvet Band ... both fairly radical rewrites).

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THESE ARE ALREADY IN OTHER THREADS.
These versions are, however, correct and annotated as far as I'm able.

:-)
Ian