Long Black Veil

Lyrics:

• Ten years ago on a cold, dark night
• Someone was killed beneath the town hall light
• There were few at the scene but they all did agree
• the slayer who ran looked a lot like me


• She walks these hills in a long black veil
• she visits my grave when the night winds wail
• nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me


• The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
• If you were somewhere else then you don't have to die"
• Well, I spoke not a word, though it meant my life,
• for I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife


• She walks these hills in a long black veil
• she visits my grave, when the night winds wail
• nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me


• Well, the scaffold is high and eternity is 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


• She walks these hills, in a long black veil
• she visits my grave, when the night winds wail
• nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
• nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me