#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # 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.
