Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cool dark night

There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene and they all did agree

That the man who ran looked a lot like 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 although it meant my life

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

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave where the night winds wail

Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

The scaffold was high and eternity neared

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans

In a long black veil she cries over my bones