The Long Black Veil/Give My Love To Rose - Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 1969

Really, what's that?
 Hey, what are you guys drinkin' in those tall purple glasses, what is that rot?
 Tea?
 Alright
 We went over to Folsom prison a year ago
 We did a show there for a guy
 Hey, a little bit later on the show I wanna do you a brand new song I wrote yesterday, called "San Quentin"
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 We got a request to do some of the songs we did at Folsom, right now
 Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
 Someone was killed, 'neath the town hall lights
 There were few at the scene but they all agreed
 That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me
 The scaffold is high and eternity's near
 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
 She walks these hills in a long black veil
 Visits my grave when the night winds wail
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 Nobody knows, nobody sees
 Nobody knows but me
 
 I found him by the railroad track this morning
 I could see that he was nearly dead
 I knelt down beside him and I listened
 Just to hear the words the dying fellow said
 He said, "They let me out of prison out in Frisco
 For ten long years I've paid for what I've done
 I was trying to get back to Louisiana
 To see my Rose and get to know my son"
 Give my love to Rose, please won't you mister?
 Take her all my money, tell her to buy some pretty clothes
 Tell my boy that daddy's so proud of him
 And don't forget to give my love to Rose
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 You know, thank you
 Alright
 Yeah, water
 Yeah, can I have a drink of water?
 Yeah, ha?
 Is the water bad here?