John Anderson - Long Black Veil guitar chord

The Long Black Veil

By Lefty Frizzell

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Ten years ago on a cold dark night

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A man was killed ‘neath the town hall light

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There were few at the scene, but they all did agree

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That the man who ran looked alot like me

The judge said son what is your alibi

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

I spoke not a word though it meant my life

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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And visits my grave when the night winds wail

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Nobody knows, nobody sees

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Nobody knows but me

The scaffold was high and eternity near

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows

In a long black veil she cries over my bones

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