Long Black Veil                                   
(Traditional, Joan Baez)                          
                                                  
Ten years ago on a cold dark night, Someone was   
killed 'neath the town hall light. The people     
who saw, they all agreed, That the slayer who     
ran looked a lot like me.                         
                                                  
The judge said, "Son, what is you alibi? If you   
were somewheres else, then you won't have to      
die." I spoke not a word though it meant my       
life, For I'd been in the arms of my best         
friend's wife.                                    
                                                  
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    She walks these hills in a long black         
    veil, Visits my grave when the night          
    winds wail. Nobody knows, nobody sees,        
    nobody knows, but me.                         
                                                  
The scaffold is high, eternity near. She stands   
in the crowd, she sheds not a tear. But           
sometimes at night when the cold winds moan, In   
a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones.       
                                                  
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