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Long Black Veil
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Nick Cave
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(D. Del, M. Wilkins)
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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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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
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Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light
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There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
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That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
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The judge he 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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But I spoke not a word though it meant my life
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For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife
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Now the scaffold is high and eternity is near
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She stood in the crowd but she'd 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 on my bones
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