The Long Black Veil-Lefty Frizzel

[ti:The Long Black Veil] [ar:Lefty Frizzell] [al:Country Favourites, Vol. 11: Great Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell [00:08.37]Ten years ago on a cold dark night [00:14.67]There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light [00:21.47] [00:22.02]There were few at the scene but they all agreed [00:29.11]That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me [00:37.03] [00:38.60]The judge said "Son what is your alibi [00:45.55]If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die" [00:53.23]I spoke not a word though it meant my life [01:00.05]For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife [01:09.16] [01:09.89]She walks these hills in a long black veil [01:17.40]She visits my grave when the night winds wail [01:25.96] [01:27.33]Nobody knows nobody sees [01:33.95] [01:34.81]Nobody knows but me [01:40.39] [01:41.83]The scaffold is high and eternity nears [01:49.50]She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear [01:56.27] [01:56.87]But sometimes at night when the cold wind mourns [02:04.72]In a long black veil she cries over my bones [02:13.01] [02:14.08]She walks these hills in a long black veil [02:21.85]She visits my grave when the night winds wail [02:30.39] [02:31.78]Nobody knows nobody sees [02:38.43] [02:39.32]Nobody knows but me nobody knows but me [02:53.32] [02:55.00]Nobody knows but me