Long Black Veil

1.

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light.

There were few at the scene and they all did agree

That the man who ran looked a lot like me.

2.

The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?

If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die.

I said not a word though it meant my life,

I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.

CHORUS:

She walks these hills in a long black veil.

She visits my grave when the night winds wail.

Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees;

nobody knows but me.

3.

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 moans

In a long black veil she cries over my bones.

CHORUS:She walks...