Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light

The people who saw now they all agreed

That the slayer who ran, looked just like me

The judge said "Son, what is your alibi?

If you were somewheres else, then you won't have to die"

I spoke not a word, thou it meant my life

For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wail

And nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

The scaffold is high, eternity near

She stands in the crowd but shed not a tear

But sometimes at night, when the cold wind moans

In a long black veil, she cries on my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wail

And nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

Nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows, nobody knows

I said, nobody knows, nobody, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

Nobody knows…