Long Black Veil

[intro]
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed ‘neath the Town Hall light
The people who saw they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

[verse]
The judge said, “son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewheres else
Then you won’t have to die”
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I’d been in the arms of my best friend’s wife

[Chorus]
She walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows, but me

[verse]
The scaffold is high, 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

[Chorus]
She walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows, but me