Long Black Veil

Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin

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Ten years ago on a cold 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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For 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,	nobody	sees,

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Nobody knows but	me

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The	scaffold is high, eternity near,

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She	stood in the crowd and	shed not a	tear

But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan,

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In a	long black veil she	cries over my	bones

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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,

A	G	D
nobody knows but	me

A	G	D
nobody knows but	me

A	G	D
nobody knows but	me