The Long Black Veil


Capo 2nd fret  intro… C…G….F….C…

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights
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The people who saw now they all greed
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The slayer who ran looked just like me
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The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi
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If you were somewhere else then 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 best friend's wife
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instrumental
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She walks these hills in a long black veil
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And she visits my grave when the night winds wail
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Nobody knows nobody sees
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Nobody knows but me
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Follow same chords throughout
Now the scaffold is high eternity near
She stands in a crowd and sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
The long black veil she cries on my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil
And she visits my grave when the night winds wail
And nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Change of key…D…G…..D…G….A….D
Nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows nobody knows I said
Repeat Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me