LONG BLACK VEIL



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Ten years ago on a cold dark night

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Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light

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The people who saw they all agreed

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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me



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She walks these hills in a long black veil

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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 is your alibi?

If you were somewhere's else, then you won't have to die"

I said not a word, though it meant my life

For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife



The scaffold is high and eternity near

She stands in the crowd and 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



@murder @love @ghost

recorded by Joan Baez on One day at a Time

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