The Band – Long Black Veil (Guitar)

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Long Black Veil chords Dill / Wilkin performed by The Band (also The Chieftains, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, The Byrds etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Black_Veil [Verse 1] *
G
Ten years ago on a cool dark night

          D                          C         G
There was someone killed beneath the town hall light

           G
There were few at the scene and they all did agree

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

            D                   C                 G
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"

  G
I spoke not a word although it meant my life

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

    C         G               C           G
She visits my grave where the night winds wail

G                       C        G 
  Nobody knows, no, and   nobody sees

C        D         C  G
  Nobody knows but me
[Verse 3]
    G
The scaffold was high and eternity neared

    D                      C          G
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

    G
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans

     D                   C             G
In a long black veil she cries over my bones
[Chorus]
    C           G          C          G
She walks these hills in a long black veil

    C         G               C           G
She visits my grave where the night winds wail

G                       C        G
  Nobody knows, no, and   nobody sees

C        D         C  G
  Nobody knows but me
Alternates: Capo II G = F D = C C = Bb Capo V G = D D = A C = G Set8