Long Black Veil

Nick Cave and the bad seeds

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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