Lyrics

LONG BLACK VEIL
Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
There was someone killed
'Neath the town hall light.
There were few at the scene
but they all did agree
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.

She walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave where the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees.
Nobody knows, but 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.
I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.

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

The scaffold was high and eternity near.
She stood all alone and she shed not a tear.
But sometimes at night
When the cold wind moans,
In a long black veil she cries over my bones.

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