ALBUM - Sing of his "LIFE AS A RODEO MAN" - 1975

LONG BLACK VEIL
by Chris LeDoux

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Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
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Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights

There were few at the scene, but they all agreed,
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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me


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'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife


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



The scaffold was high and eternity near,
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She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night, when the cold wind moans,
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In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones


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