Misc Traditional – Long Black Veil (Guitar Acoustic)

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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night,

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there was someone killed 'neath the town hall light

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There were few at the scene, but they all agreed

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that the man who ran looked a lot like me

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She walks these hills in a long black veil

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She visits my grave while the night wind wails.

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Nobody knows, Nobody sees, Nobody knows but me

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The judge said "Son, what is your alibi?

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

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Well, I said not a word, though it meant my life

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

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She walks these hills in a long black veil

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She visits my grave while the night wind wails.

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Nobody knows, Nobody sees, Nobody knows but me

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The scaffold was high, and eternity neared

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She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

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But sometimes at night, when the cold wind blows

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In a long black veil, she cries over my bones

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She walks these hills in a long black veil

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She visits my grave while the night wind wails.

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Nobody knows, Nobody sees, Nobody knows but me