Key: C
Introduction:
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light
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Just a few at the scene, and they all did agree
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That the slayer 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 spoke not a word, although it meant my life
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For 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 when 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 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 winds moan
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In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones
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