Long Black Veil

	  		 
 
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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night 
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A man was killed, beneath the town hall light 
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Though there were few, present at the scene 
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They say the man who fled, looked alot like me 
 
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And she walks these hills, in a long black veil 
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She visits my grave, when the night winds wail 
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Nobody knows, nobody sees 
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Nobody knows but me
 
 
The judge said son, what's your alibi 
If you were somewhere else, then you would not have to die 
But I did not say a word, though it meant my life 
For I was in the arms of my best friends wife 
 
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The scaffold is high and eternity is near 
She was in the crowd, she shed not a tear 
Oh sometimes late at night, when the cold wind blows 
The long black veil it rests over my bones 
 
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Nobody knows, nobody sees 
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Nobody knows