Key: C
Introduction:
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Ten years ago on a cool dark night
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Someone was killed beneath the town hall light
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The few at the scene all did agree
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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
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She walks these hills in a long black veil
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She visits my grave where the night winds wail
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Nobody knows, nobody sees
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Nobody knows but 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 spoke not a word although it meant my life
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But I'd 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 where the night winds wail
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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
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Nobody knows but me
Guiat solo repeat verse
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The scaffold was high and eternity neared
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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 where the night winds wail
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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
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Nobody knows but me
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Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
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Nobody knows but me