Long Black Veil

Marijohn Wilkins & Danny Dill

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1.Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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  there was someone killed 'neath the Town Hall light
  there were few at the scene but they all agreed
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  that the man who ran looked a lot like me.
2.The judge said: son what is your alibi
  if you were somewhere else then you don't have to die
  I spoke not a word though it meant my life
  for I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
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R:She walks these hills in a long black veil
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  she visits my grave while the night winds wail
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  nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me.
3.The scaffold was high and eternity was near
  she stood in the crowd and she shed not a tear
  but sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
  in a long black veil she cries over my bones.