Long Black Veil

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[Verse 1]
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
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Someone was killed 'neath the 
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Town Hall light
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The people who saw they all agreed
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That the slayer who ran looked a 
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lot like me.

[Verse 2]
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The judge said, "son, what is your 
alibi?
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If you were somewheres else, then 
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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 
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best friend's wife.

[Chorus]
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She walks these hills in a long 
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black veil,
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Visits my grave when the night 
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winds wail,
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Nobody knows, nobody sees,
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Nobody knows, but me.

[Verse 4]
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The scaffold is high, eternity near,
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She stands in the crowd, she sheds
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 not a tear,
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But sometimes at night, when the 
cold winds moan,
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In a long black veil she cries 
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o'er my bones.

[Chorus]
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She walks these hills in a long 
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black veil,
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Visits my grave when the night 
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winds wail,
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Nobody knows, nobody sees,
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Nobody knows, but me.