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‘Long Black Veil’
~Lefty Frizzell~

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was someone killed beneath the town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agree
That the slayer 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 though it meant my life
For I had been in the arms of my best friend’swife

She walks these hills
In a long black veil
She visits my grave
When the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, 
nobody knows but me 

The scaffold is high and eternity near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil she cries over my bones

She walks these hills
In a long black veil
She visits my grave
When the night winds wail
Nobody knows,nobody sees, 
Nobody knows but me  
Nobody knows but me 
Nobody knows but me