"Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.
[Verse]
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night  
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Someone was killed beneath the town
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 hall light  
Someone was killed beneath the town hall light  
  
There were few at the scene but they
 all agreed  
There were few at the scene but they all agreed  
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That the slayer who ran looked a lot
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 like me 
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me 
[Verse]
    F           C 
She walks these hills   
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In a long black veil  
    F         C 
She visits my grave   
         F           C 
When the night winds wail  
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Nobody knows nobody sees   
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Nobody knows but me
[Verse]
C 
The scaffold's high and eternity near
  
The scaffold's high and eternity near  
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She stood in the crowd and shed not a
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 tear   
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear   
  
But sometimes at night when the cold
 wind blows  
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows  
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In a long black veil she cries over
    C 
 my bones
In a long black veil she cries over my bones
[Verse]
    F           C 
She walks these hills   
     F          C 
In a long black veil  
    F         C 
She visits my grave  
         F           C 
When the night winds wail  
             F      C 
Nobody knows nobody sees  
F      G7        C 
Nobody knows but me 
[Verse]
C 
The judge said son what is your alibi
  
The judge said son what is your alibi  
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If you were somewhere else then you
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 won't have to die  
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die  
  
I spoke not a word though it meant my
 life  
I spoke not a word though it meant my life  
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For I had been in the arms of my best
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 friend's wife  
For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife  
[Verse]
    F           C 
She walks these hills  
     F          C 
In a long black veil  
    F         C 
She visits my grave  
         F           C 
When the night winds wail  
             F      C 
Nobody knows nobody sees  
F      G7        C 
Nobody knows but me