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Joan Baez - Long Black Veil Lyrics

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  • Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
  • Someone was killed ‘neath the Town Hall light
  • The people who saw they all agreed
  • That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.
  • The judge said, “son, what is your alibi?
  • If you were somewheres 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 friend's wife.
  • She walks these hills in a long black veil,
  • Visits my grave when the night winds wail,
  • Nobody knows, nobody sees,
  • Nobody knows, but me.
  • The scaffold is high, eternity near,
  • She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear,
  • But sometimes at night, when the cold winds moan,
  • In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones.
  • She walks these hills in a long black veil,
  • Visits my grave when the night winds wail,
  • Nobody knows, nobody sees,
  • Nobody knows, but me.

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