Gene Watson – Long Black Veil (Guitar)

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Track 5 of 11 on the album "My Heroes Have All Been Country" (2014) [Intro] E [Verse 1]
E
Ten years ago on a cold, dark night

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There was someone killed 'neath the town hall lights

           E
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed

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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
[Verse 2]
    E
The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?

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

  E
I spoke not a word, although it meant my life

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For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
[Chorus]
    A           E          A          E
She walks these hills in a long black veil

   A          E              A           E
She visits my grave when the night winds wail

E               D A       E
   Nobody knows... nobody sees

A         B7       E
   Nobody knows but me
[Interlude] B7 A E [Verse 3]
      E
The scaffold was high and eternity near

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She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

    E
But sometimes at night, when the cold winds moan

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In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones
[Chorus]
    A           E          A          E
She walks these hills in a long black veil

   A          E              A           E
She visits my grave when the night winds wail

E               D A       E
   Nobody knows... nobody sees

A         B7       E
   Nobody knows but me

 E           D A       E
Nobody knows... nobody sees

A         B7       E
   Nobody knows but me