Long Black Veil – Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed, 'neath the town hall light
The people who saw, they both did agree
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me
Chorus
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
Break
The judge said son, what is your alibi
If you were someplace else, then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
Chorus and Break
The scaffold is high and eternity's near
She stands in the crowd and sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night, when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones
Chorus
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