The Long Black Veil
By Lefty Frizzell
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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
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There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
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That the slayer who ran looked alot like me
The judge said son what is your alibi
If you were somewhere 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
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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
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Nobody knows but me
The scaffold was high and eternity near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil she cries over my bones
Chorus
Nobody knows but me
Nobody knows but me
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