Long Black Veil

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night A man was killed, beneath the town hall light Though there were few, present at the scene They say the man who fled, looked alot like me And 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's your alibi If you were somewhere else, then you would not have to die But I did not say a word, though it meant my life For I was in the arms of my best friends wife (Chorus) The scaffold is high and eternity is near She was in the crowd, she shed not a tear Oh sometimes late at night, when the cold wind blows The long black veil it rests over my bones (Chorus) Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows