The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band

Mac Wiseman

Written by Mel Foree and Cliff Carlisle

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                     G7    C
One evening while out for a ramble
    F                   C
The hour was just about nine
  F                     C
I met a young maiden in Frisco
                 G7         C
On the corner of Cherry and Pine

Verse 2

                             G7 C
On her face there was beauty of nature
    F                C
And her eyes seem to expand
    F                   C
Her hair so rich and so brilliant
                  G7          C
Was entwined in a blue velvet band

Verse 3

                            C G7
We strolled down the street together
      F                           C
In my pocket she placed her small hand
F                           C
She planted the evidence on me
                   G7        C
A diamond that was worth ten grand

Verse 4

                 G7            C
Well I heard the scream of the sirens
    F                           C
And the girl in the blue velvet band
    F                       C
She left me to face all the troubles
                        G7        C
With a diamond that was worth ten grand

Verse 5

                    G7          C
They sent me to San Quentin for stealing
F                         C
God knows I'm an innocent man
    F                           C
But the guilty one now she lies dying
               G7          C
My girl in the blue velvet band

Verse 6

              G7         C
At night when bedtime is ringing
  F                             C
I stand looking out through the bars
  F                      C
I fancy I hear her voice calling
                      G7 C
Far out on that ocean of stars

Verse 7

                      G7      C
I'll be out in a week and I'm leaving
    F                         C
But I'll carry that name of a man
    F                  C
Who spent ten years in prison
                    G7          C
For the girl in the blue velvet band

Verse 8

               G7     C
When I get out I will endeavor
   F                        C
To live in some far distant land
     F                   C
I’ll bid farewell to old Frisco
                    G7          C
And the girl in the blue velvet band