Bobby Bare - Long Black Veil lyrics

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

Someone was killed neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene but they all agreed

That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

The judge he said son what is your alibi

If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die

I spoke not a word although it meant my life

For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wail

Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me

[ harmonica ]

The scaffold was high and eternity was near

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans

In the long black veil she cries o'er my bones

Yes she walks these hills in a long black veil...