Wilkins, Dill:

THE LONG BLACK VEIL

1.	Ten years ago on a cold dark night There were someone killed ‘neath the town hall light There were few at the scene and they all agreed That the slayer man looked a lot like me

2.	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

Ch.	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

3.	The scaffold was high and eternity near She stood in the crowd and she shed not a tear And sometimes at night when the cold wind moans In a long black veil she cries o’er my bones

Ch.	Nobody knows but me