[00:00.00]The long black veil
[00:02.74]Don Williams
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[00:08.46]Ten years ago on a cold dark night
[00:16.02]A man was killed neath the town hall light
[00:25.31]There were few at the scene but they all agreed
[00:33.31]That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.
[00:43.01]The judge said, Son what is your alibi?
[00:50.48]If you were somewhere else then you wont have to die
[00:58.39]Well, I spoke not a word though it meant my life
[01:06.12]For I had been in the arms of my best friends wife.
[01:15.90]She walks these hills in a long black veil
[01:23.69]She visits my grave when the night winds wail
[01:33.81]Nobody knows, nobody sees,
[01:42.10]Nobody knows, but me.
[01:52.77]The scaffold is high an eternity nears
[02:00.34]She stood in the crowd, shed not a tear
[02:08.24]But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
[02:15.85]She comes to my grave and she cries on my bones.
[02:25.64]She walks these hills in a long black veil
[02:33.44]She visits my grave when the night winds wail
[02:43.56]Nobody knows, nobody sees,
[02:51.83]Nobody knows, but me...
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