A Cozy Celtic Concert Series - Episode 3

This week's set list:

1) Flying Sails
2) Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta nara やさしさに包まれたなら ("If Wrapped in Kindness" - Yumi Matsutoya)
3) Against the Grain
4) Black Velvet Band (traditional Irish)
5) Celebration Reel

🌸 Lyrics: Black Velvet Band (traditional)
In a neat little town they call Belfast
Apprenticed to trade I was bound
And many an hour's sweet happiness
Have I spent in that neat little town
When a sad misfortune came over me
Which caused me to stray from the land
Far away from my friends and relations
Betrayed by the black velvet band

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

So I took a stroll down Broadway
Meaning not long for to stay
When who should I spy but this pretty fair maid
Come a-traipsing along the highway
She was both fair and handsome
Her neck it was just like a swan's
And her hair it hung over her shoulders
Tied up with a black velvet band

So I took a stroll with this pretty fair maid
And a gentleman passing us by
Oh I knew that she meant the undoing of him
By the look in her roguish black eyes
A gold watch she took from his pocket
And slipped it right into my hand
And the very first thing that I said was
Bad luck to the black velvet band

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