Long Black Veil Lyrics

Long Black Veil lyrics

(D. Del, M. Wilkins)

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


Ten years ago, on a cold dark
night
Someone 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 he said: Son, what is your alibi
If you were
somewhere else, then you won't have to die
But I spoke not a word though it
meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friends
wife


Now the scaffold is high and eternity is near
She stood in
the crowd but shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds
moan
In a long black veil she cries on my bones