The Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene but they all agreed

That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

The judge he said, ‽Son, what is your alibi?

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

I spoke not a word although it meant my life

For 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 when the night winds wail

Nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

The scaffold was high and eternity was near

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans

In the long black veil, she cries o'er my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wail

Nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me