The Long Black Veil
The Band
(Mary Jane Wilken and Danny Dill)
from the album Music from Big Pink
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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someone was killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene and they all did agree
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That the man who ran looked a lot like me
The judge said "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word although it meant my life
For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
C G C G
She walks these hills in a long black veil
C G C G
visits my grave where the night winds wail
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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
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Nobody knows but me
The scaffold was high and eternity neared
She stands in the crowd and sheds not a tear
Now sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
And that long black veil whispers o'er my bones
She walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my grave where the night winds wail
Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
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Lefty Frizzell put it on the country charts at # 6 in 1959.
Sammi Smith brought it back to # 26 in 1974.
Also done by Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, and Bobby Bare.
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