Long Black Veil Chords & Lyrics by Lefty Frizzell
Long Black Veil
guitar chords lyrics
Long Black Veil:Lefty Frizzell.
#6 in 1959. (A crossover hit.)
#1.
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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night,
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there was someone killed 'neath the town hall light.
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There were few were at the scene, but they all agreed,
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that the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.
#2.
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The judge said, 'Son, what is your alibi?
B A E
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die.'
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I spoke not a word though it meant my life,
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for I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
CHORUS:
A E A E
She walks these hills, in a long black veil.
A E A E
She visits my grave, when the night winds wail.
E A E A B E
Nobody knows, nobody sees..nobody knows, but me.
#3.
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The scaffold is high, and eternity nears..
B A E
she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear.
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But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows,
B A E
in a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones.
CHORUS:
A E A E
She walks these hills, in a long black veil.
A E A E
She visits my grave, when the night winds wail.
E A E A B E
Nobody knows, nobody sees..nobody knows, but me.
OUTRO:
A B E A B E
Nobody knows but me...nobody knows but me. (Fade.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
