The Long Black Veil (with Mick Jagger)

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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
 There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
 Just a few at the scene and they all agree
 That the man who ran looked a lot like me
 Well the judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
 If you're somewhere else well you won't have to die"
 And I said not a word though it meant my life
 I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife
 She walks these hills in a long black veil
 She visits my grave when the night winds wail
 Nobody knows, Lord, nobody sees
 Nobody knows but me
 Well the scaffold's high and eternity nears
 And she stands in the crowd and sheds not a tear
 But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
 In a long black veil she cries all over my bones
 She walks these hills in a long black veil
 She visits my grave when the night winds wail
 Nobody knows, Lord, nobody sees
 Nobody knows but me
 Nobody knows but me, yeah

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Duration
03:37
Key
7
Tempo
128 BPM

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