Album: other songs

Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cold dark night a man was killed neath the town hall light
They where few at the scene but they all did agree the man who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said "son what is your alibi if you where somewhere else then you won't have to die" I spoke not a word though it meant my life I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil and visits my grave when the night wind wails and nobody knows and nobody sees and nobody knows but me

The scaffold is high and eternity's near she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear But sometimes at night when the cold winds blow in a long black veil Lord she cries over my bones

And she walks these hills in a long black veil and visits my grave where the night wind wail and nobody knows Lord and nobody sees nobody knows but me

Lord nobody knows Lordand nobody sees nobody sees nobody knows but me