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Rosanne Cash - Long Black Veil |
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night |
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Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights |
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There were few at the scene, but they all agreed |
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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, 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, 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 is high, and eternity's near |
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She stood in the crowd, and shed not a tear |
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But some times at night, when the cold wind moans |
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In a long black veil, she cries over my bones |
