Long Black Veil (Danny Dill and Marijon Wilkin)


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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light
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The people who saw they all agreed
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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere's else, then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I've 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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Visits my grave when the night winds wail
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Nobody knows, nobody sees
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Nobody knows but me

The scaffold is high, the 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