The Long Black Veil Lyrics - Don Williams

(Marijohn Wilkin / Danny Dill) 

Ten years ago on a cold dark night 

A man 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 said, Son what is your alibi? 

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

Well, I spoke not a word though it meant my life 

For I had been in the arms of my best friends wife. 

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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 

She stood in the crowd, shed not a tear 

But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan 

She comes to my grave and she cries on my bones. 

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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...