Long Black Veil

(album: Wild & Blue - 1982)

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
A man was killed 'neath the town hall lights
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, though it meant my life
I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil
And visits my grave when the night winds wail
And nobody knows, and nobody sees
And nobody knows, but me

The scaffold is high and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But some times at night when the cold winds blow
In a long black veil, Lord, she cries over my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil
And visits my grave where the night winds wail
And nobody knows, Lord, and nobody sees
Nobody knows, but me

Lord, nobody knows, Lord, and nobody sees
Nobody knows, but me