Lefty Frizzell Lyrics
"Long Black Veil"
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(Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill)
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agree
That the slayer 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
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.
The scaffold's high and eternity near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones.
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.
Nobody knows but me.
Nobody knows but me...
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agree
That the slayer 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
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.
The scaffold's high and eternity near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones.
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.
Nobody knows but me.
Nobody knows but me...
This song is from the album "Lefty Frizzell's Greatest Hits [Columbia]", "Look What Thoughts Will Do [Legacy Recordings]", "Remembering...The Greatest Hits of Lefty Frizzell", "Lefty's 20 Golden Hits [Columbia]", "Lefty's 20 Golden Hits [Tee Vee]", "American Originals [Columbia]", "Brothers in Song (Lefty & David Frizzell) [Sony Mu", "Pure Country [Sony Music Special Products]", "That's the Way Life Goes: The Hit Songs 1950-1975", "16 Biggest Hits [Sony]", "Greatest Hits [Columbia]", "Life's Like Poetry [Bear Family]", "The Best Of Lefty Frizzell", "Country Music Hall of Fame 1982 [King Records]", "Life's Like Poetry [Bear Family]", "Life's Like Poetry [Bear Family]" and "All American Country".