The Long Black Veil

Cat. #1109 (MFH #773) - As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on April 9, 1970

VERSE 1
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was someone killed beneath th Town Hall Light
Few at th scene but they all agree
That th slayer that ran looked a lot like me

CHORUS:
She roams th hill in a long black veil
She visit my grave when th cold wind wail
Nobody knows, nobody see
Nobody know, but me

VERSE 2
Th judge says, Son, what is your alibi
If he were somewhere else, you'll have to die
I spoke not a word tho' it mean't my life
For I was in th arms of my best friends wife

VERSE 3
The scaffold is high an' eternity near
She stood in th crowd an' shed not a tear
And sometime at night when th cold wind mourns
She stands by my grave an' cried o'er my bones