Date:10/9/97
Subject: Long Black Veil
Transcribed by: Brad Kale at «[email protected]»
Long Black Veil
By Wilkins and Dill
As played by The Country Gentlemen
(G)
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
(D) {C} (G)
There was someone killed ‘neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
(D) {C} (G)
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me
The judge said son what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else than you don’t have to die.
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I’d been in the arms of my best friends wife
(chorus)
{C} (G) {C} (G)
She walks the hills in a long black veil
{C} (G) {C} (G)
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
{C} (G)
Nobody knows, nobody sees
{C} (D) (G)
Nobody knows but me.
The scaffold was high and eternity near
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.
