The Long Black Veil

“The Long Black Veil”

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night

There was someone killed, 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene, but they all did agree

That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

The judge said son, what is your alibi

If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die

I spoke not a word, though it meant my life

I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

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She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave where the night winds wail

Nobody knows, no and nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

the scaffold was high and eternity near

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night, when the cold wind blows

In a long black veil, she cries over my bones

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