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Long Black Veil
-Marijohn Wilkin / Danny Dill
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the townhall light,
There were few at the scene, but the all agreed
That the stranger who ran looked a lot like me
Refrain:
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 ment my life,
For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife
Chorus:
She walks these hills in a long black veil,
She visits my grave where the night winds wail.
Refrain
The scaffold was high, and eternity near,
She stood in the crown and shed not a tear.
But sometimes at night, when the cold wind moans,
In a long black veil, she cries on my bones.
Chorus & Refrain
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