Key: G
Introduction:
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
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There were few at the scene and they all did agree
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That the man who ran looked a lot like me.
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The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
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If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
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I said not a word though it meant my life,
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I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
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She walks these hills in a long black veil.
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She visits my grave when the night winds wail.
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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees nobody knows but me.
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The scaffold was high and eternity near
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She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
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But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
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In a long black veil she cries over my bones.
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She walks these hills in a long black veil.
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She visits my grave when the night winds wail.
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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees nobody knows but me.