Long Black Veil

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Ten years ago on a cool dark night
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There was someone killed beneath the town hall light
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There were few at the scene and they all did agree
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That the man who ran looked a lot like me

[Verse 2]

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The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
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If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
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I spoke not a word although it meant my life
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I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

[Chorus]

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She walks these hills in a long black veil
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She visits my grave where the night winds wail
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  Nobody knows, no, and   nobody sees
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  Nobody knows but me

[Verse 3]

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The scaffold was high and eternity neared
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She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
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But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
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In a long black veil she cries over my bones

[Chorus]

    C           G          C          G
She walks these hills in a long black veil
    C         G               C           G
She visits my grave where the night winds wail
G                       C        G
  Nobody knows, no, and   nobody sees
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  Nobody knows but me

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