By Lefty Frizzell 
 
 
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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 at the scene, but they all agreed 
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That the slayer who ran looked a lot 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 
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in a long black veil  
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She visits my grave
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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  
 
 
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Nobody knows but me 
Nobody knows but me