Long Black Veil

C

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

G7      F      C

Someone was killed beneath the town hall light

C

There were few at the scene but they all agreed

G7      F      C

That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

F      C

She walks these hills

F      C

In a long black veil

F      C

She visits my grave

F      C

When the night winds wail

F      C

Nobody knows nobody sees

F     G7     C

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

For I had been in the arms of my best friend’s wife

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The scaffold’s 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