Chords for Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) - Blue Velvet Band

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_ Well I'm a bit doggone, look who's here.
If it ain't my old friend Cactus Joe.
Well Joe, you're just in time to hear that beautiful old song all the cowboys
out here been raving about so much.
My Blue Velvet Band.
So if you'll just pass
me that old cigar box over there by the bench, I'll try and sing it for you. _ _ _ _ _
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If you listen, a story I'll [A] tell _ you, of [E] a girl who once lived in [B] this world. _
_ [E] A girl who once was [A] my sweetheart, _ _ [B] she was known as the Blue Velvet [E] _ Band.
_ _ On her cheeks were the first flash [A] of nature, _ _ [E] her beauty it seemed to _ [B] expand.
_ _ _ [E] Her hair hung down in [A] long tresses, _ _ [B] tied back with a blue velvet [E] band.
_ _ _ I can still see those tears as [A] we _ _ parted, [E] of my heart broken Blue Velvet [B] Band.
_ _ _ [E] As I left her I told her [A] I'd never _ _ _ [B] come back to my old home [E] again.
_ _ _ Five years in the wide [A] open spaces, _ _ [E] was all that my poor heart could [B]
stand.
_ _ [E] Every night as I lay on [A] my pillow, _ _ [B] I would dream of my Blue Velvet Band.
_ _ [E] Then one night as I lie down [A]
thinking, _ _ [E] of home and poor mother and [B] _
dad.
_ [E] Like a flash by my bedside [A] was standing, _ _ [B] the form of my Blue Velvet [E] Band.
_ _ _ I started next day for [A] my darling, _ _ [E] to go back and make her [B] my bride.
_ But [E] as I reached the old country [A] _
depot, _ _ [B] they told me my sweetheart [E] had died.
_ They laid her to rest in [A] the _ _ churchyard, amid [E] the sweet summer flowers of the [B] land.
_ _ On [E] her finger was the ring I [A] had bought her, _ _ [B] on her head [F#m] was a Blue [E] Velvet Band.
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