"Long Black Veil" lyrics
Ten years ago on a cold, dark night
Someone was killed neath the town hall light
The people who say, they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
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 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
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife
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's near
She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In her long black veil she cries o'er my bones
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
Someone was killed neath the town hall light
The people who say, they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
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 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
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife
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's near
She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In her long black veil she cries o'er my bones
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
