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Ten years ago on a cold dark night  
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A man was killed 'neath the town hall light  
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There were few at the scene, but they all did agree  
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That the man who ran looked alot like me  
 
The judge said son what is your alibi  

If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die  

I spoke not a word though it meant my life 

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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And visits my grave when the night winds wail  
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Nobody knows, nobody sees 
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Nobody knows but me    
  
The scaffold was high and eternity near  
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear  
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows  
In a long black veil she cries over my bones  
  
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