Long Black Veil

Date:10/9/97

subject: Long Black Veil

transcribed by: Brad Kale at "hankspad@hotmail.com"

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.