Joan Baez

Long Black Veil Lyrics

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Composers:
  • Dill
  • Danny / Wilkin
  • Marijohn
Genres:
  • Folk
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  • best of joanie baez
  • female vocalist
  • freedom
  • lbv
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Joan Baez - Long Black Veil lyrics

Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
Someone was killed ‘neath the Town Hall light
The people who saw they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.

The judge said, “son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewheres else,
Then you won’t have to die”.
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life,
For I’d been in the arms of my best friend’s wife.

She walks these hills in a long black veil,
Visits my grave when the night winds wail,Joan Baez - Long Black Veil - http://motolyrics.com/joan-baez/long-black-veil-lyrics.html
Nobody knows, nobody sees,
Nobody knows, but me.

The scaffold is high, eternity near,
She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear,
But sometimes at night, when the cold winds moan,
In a long black veil she cries o’er my bones.

She walks these hills in a long black veil,
Visits my grave when the night winds wail,
Nobody knows, nobody sees,
Nobody knows, but me.

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