The Band - Long black veil - 2000 digital remaster lyrics
[The Band - Long black veil - 2000 digital remaster lyrics]
Ten years ago on a cool dark night
There was someone killed 'neath
The town hall light
There were few at the scene
And they all did agree
That the man who ran looked a lot like me
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 although it meant my life
I had been in the arms
Of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visit's my grave where
The night winds wail
Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
The sky froze high and eternity neared
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
There was someone killed 'neath
The town hall light
There were few at the scene
And they all did agree
That the man who ran looked a lot like me
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 although it meant my life
I had been in the arms
Of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visit's my grave where
The night winds wail
Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
The sky froze high and eternity neared
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