Long Black Veil

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Ten years ago on a cool dark night

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There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light

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There were few at the scene and they all did agree

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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



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She walks these hills in a long black veil

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She visits my grave where the night winds wail

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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees

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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




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