[ti:Long Black Veil] [ar:Lefty Frizzell] [al:SINGLE FILE: Lefty Frizzell] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell [00:04.35]Written by:M. Wilkin/D. Dill [00:08.71]Ten years ago on a cold dark night [00:15.12]There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light [00:24.06]There were few at the scene but they all agree [00:30.42]That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me [00:39.64]The judge said son what is your alibi [00:45.87]If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die [00:55.12]I spoke not a word though it meant my life [01:01.21]For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife [01:10.39]She walks these hills in a long black veil [01:17.32]She visits my grave when the night winds wail [01:26.38]Nobody knows nobody sees [01:33.16]Nobody knows but me [01:46.75]The scaffold's high and eternity near [01:53.47]She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear [02:02.09]But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows [02:08.84]In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones [02:17.33]She walks these hills in a long black veil [02:24.49]She visits my grave when the night winds wail [02:33.13]Nobody knows nobody sees [02:39.89]Nobody knows but me [02:46.70]Nobody knows but me [02:56.19]But me