Long Black Veil Lyrics by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Long Black Veil Lyrics

    (d. del, m. wilkins)

    She walks these hills in a long black veil
    She visits my grave when the night winds wail
    Nobody knows, nobody sees
    Nobody knows but me


    Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
    Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light
    There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
    That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me


    The judge he said: son, what is your alibi
    If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
    But i spoke not a word though it meant my life
    For i'd been in the arms of my best friends wife


    Now the scaffold is high and eternity is near
    She stood in the crowd but shed not a tear
    But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
    In a long black veil she cries on my bones

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