The Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

there was someone's killed neath the town hall light

just few at the scene but they all agreed

That the man who ran looked a lot like me.

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

If you were somewhere else then you wont have to die

I spoke not a word though it meant my life

I had been in the arms of my best friends 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 is high an eternity nears

and She stood in the crowd, shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan

and the long black veil, she cries over 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...