Long Black Veil
Marijohn Wilkins and Danny Dill, 1959
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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night,
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light.
There were few at the scene, but they all agree,
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me.
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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.
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 had been in the arms, of my best friend's wife.
The scaffold's 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 o'er my bones.