Long Black Veil

Song Long Black Veil
Artist Richard Hawley
Album Just Like The Rain

Lyrics

[00:22.33] Ten years ago on a cool dark night
[00:27.98] There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
[00:33.67] There were few at the scene and they all did agree
[00:39.57] That the man who ran looked a lot like me
[00:47.23] The judge said "Son, what is your alibi?
[00:53.07] If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
[00:58.52] I spoke not a word although it meant my life
[01:04.61] I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
[01:12.06] She walks these hills in a long black veil
[01:19.09] She visits my grave where the night winds wail
[01:27.19] Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
[01:33.03] Nobody knows but me
[01:38.57] The scaffold was high and eternity neared
[01:44.30] She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
[01:50.07] But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
[01:56.22] In a long black veil she cries over my bones
[02:03.39] She walks these hills in a long black veil
[02:10.93] She visits my grave where the night winds wail
[02:19.14] Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
[02:24.94] Nobody knows but me
[02:30.07] She walks these hills in a long black veil
[02:37.47] She visits my grave where the night winds wail