Long Black Veil Lyrics - Rick Danko

Ten years ago on a cold dark night 

There was someone killed 'neath the town hall lights 

There were few at the scene but they all agree 

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" 

I spoke not a word though it meant my life 

For I'd 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 and eternity near 

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear 

But some times at night when the cold wind moans 

In a long black veil she cries over my bones