Long Black Veil Lyrics - Roy Drusky

Ten years ago on a cold dark night 

Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light 

Just a few at the scene but they all did 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, well, you won't have to die" 

I spoke not a word though it meant my life 

So 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 love, nobody sees, nobody knows but me 

The scaffold was high and eternity near 

She stands in the crowd and sheds not a tear 

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans 

In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones