Johnny Cash - Long Black Veil, The guitar chord

The Long Black Veil (3:05)

Johnny Cash

Written by: M.Wilkin and D.Dill

Recorded: December 17, 1964 Nashville, Tennessee

Source: The Essential Johnny Cash Vol. 2

Key: C

F-C-F-C

(C) Ten years ago on a cold dark night

(G) Someone was killed 'neath the town (F) hall lights (C)

(C) There were few at the scene but they all agreed

(C) That the (G) slayer who ran looked a lot (F) like me (C)

She (F) walks these hills (C) in a (F) long black veil (C)

She (F) visits my grave (C) when the (F) night winds wail (C)

Nobody knows (F) nobody sees (C)

(F) Nobody (G) knows but me (C)

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

Now the scaffold is high and eternity's near

She stood in a crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans

In a long black veil she cries o're 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

Nobody knows nobody sees

Nobody knows but me