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Long Black Veil

Ten years ago
on a cold dark night
There was someone was killed
'neath the town hall light.
There were few at the scene
but they all agreed
That the slayer 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,
thou 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.
She visits my grave
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when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me.

Oh, the gallows were close
and eternity's near.
She stood in the crowd
and shed not a tear.
But sometimes at night,
when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil,
she cries ov're my bones.

She walks these hills
in a long black veil.
She visits my grave
when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me.