THE LONG BLACK VEIL
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night, someone was killed
beneath the town hall light.
Em
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There were few at the scene but they all agreed, that the slayer who ran,
C G
looked a lot like me.
2
The judge said son, what is your alibi, if you were
somewhere else, then you won’t have to die.
But I spoke not a word though it meant my life, for I was lying in the arms,of my best
friends wife.
CHORUS
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C
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C
G
She walks these hills in a long black veil, visits my grave, when
the night winds wail.
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D
G
No-body knows, no-body sees, no-body knows like me.
3
The scaffolding’s high and eternity’s near, she stands in the
crowd and she sheds not a tear.
But on some dark nights, when the cold wind moans, in a long black veil, she
crieso’er my bones.
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She walks these hills in a long black veil, visits my grave when the
night winds wail.
No-body knows, no-body sees, no-body knows but me.
No-body knows, no-body sees, no-body knows, but me.