Long Black Veil

	  		Rick in Macon 

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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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Rick in Macon