Blue Velvet Band

I will tell you a sad but true story

Let it be an example to man

How I tore down the world of my sweetheart

She was known as the Blue Velvet Band

On her cheeks were the first rays of beauty

Her beauty it seemed to expand

Her hair hung down in long tresses

Tied back by a Blue Velvet Band

I Boarded a tanker for Holland

And accused her of loving some man

But deep down in my heart she kept calling

Come back to your Blue Velvet Band

As the sea gulls flew high up above us

In the path of the silvery moonlight

I see your face in wave dear

Out in the ocean tonight

I was called to the bridge by the Captain

In his hand was a message of white

The message just flashed o're the wireless

That your darling is dying tonight

I boarded a freighter for Cuba

To speed me back to her side

But the bells in the old village steeple

Had told me my darling had died

Heart broken I knelt down and kissed her

The last time to hold her sweet hand

Which wore the ring that I bought her

On her head was the Blue Velvet Band