The Long Black Veil

Long Black Veil (Re-Recorded) - Johnny Lee

It was 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 agreed

That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

And the judge said

Son what is your alibi

If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die

But I spoke not a word although it meant my life

For I'd been in the arms of judge'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 was high and eternity's near

She stands in the crowd and she shed not a tear

But sometime late at night when the cold cold wind blows

And she cries over 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

There ain't nobody knows nobody sees

Nobody knows but me