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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
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There was someone shot 'neath the town hall light
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Few were at the scene but they all agree
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That the man did the shooting looked a lot like me

The judge said "Son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else 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 friends wife

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She walks these hills in a long black veil
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She visits my grave while 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, but she shed not a tear
But sometimes late at night, when the cold wind moans
She visits my grave, and she cries o'er my bones

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