The Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light

Just a few at the scene, and they all did agree

That the man who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said "Son, what's your alibi?

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

But I spoke not a word, tho' it meant my life

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

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She walks these hills in a long black veil

Visits my grave when the night winds wail

Nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows, but me

The scaffold is high, eternity near

She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan

In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones

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