Long Black Veil

Lyrics:

• Ten years ago on a cool dark night
• There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
• There were few at the scene and they all did agree
• That the man 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 although it meant my life
• 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 where the night winds wail
• Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
• Nobody knows but me
• The scaffold was high and eternity neared
• She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
• But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
• In a long black veil she cries over my bones