The Kingston Trio – Long Black Veil (Guitar)

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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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Just a few at the scene, and they all did agree

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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like 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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I spoke not a word, although it meant my life

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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

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She visits my grave when the night winds wail

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Nobody knows, nobody sees

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Nobody knows, but me

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The scaffold was high, and eternity near

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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 winds moan

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In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones