Long Black Veil
by Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill
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Long Black Veil
by Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill
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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
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
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The judge said "Son, what is your alibi?
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If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
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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
by Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill
C
Ten years ago on a cool dark night
G7 F C
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
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
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The judge said "Son, what is your alibi?
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If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
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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