Black velvet band live biography
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The Black Velvet Band
Traditional British/Irish folk song
"The Black Velvet Band" (Roud number 2146) is a traditional folk song collected from singers in Ireland, Australia, England, Canada and the United States describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to Australia, a common punishment in the British Empire during the 19th century.
Versions were also published on broadsides.[1]
The Dubliners released a popular version of the song in 1967 based on a version sung by the traditional English singer Harry Cox.
Synopsis
The narrator is bound apprentice in a town (which varies in different versions).
He becomes romantically involved with a young woman. She steals a watch and places it in his pocket or in his hand. The apprentice does not try to stop this from happening, which is speculated to be out of his love for the girl.[2] However the man does wish bad luck towards the woman, as seen in the line "Bad luck to the black