Long Black Veil — текст песни (Bobby Bare)

(Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill)

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed `neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.

The judge he 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
For 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 when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me

--- Instrumental ---

The scaffold was high and eternity was near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In the long black veil she cries o`er my bones.

Yes, 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...