The Long Black Veil Chords by Lefty Frizzell

[Start]

[Verse]
E                                   
■ Ten years ago on a cold dark night
          B7                        A         E    
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
           E                                   
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
         B7                      A        E 
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
    E                                
The judge said Son what is your alibi
            B7                  A                 E  
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die
  E                                       
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
          B7                     A             E   
For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife


[Chorus]
A               E          A          E7  
She walks these hills in a long black veil
A             E              A           E   
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
             A        E   
Nobody knows ■ nobody sees
A      B7    E     
Nobody knows but me


[Verse]
    E                                  
The scaffold is high and eternity nears
B7                         A          E   
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
    E                                           
But sometimes at night when the cold wind mourns


[Chorus]
     B7                  A          E       
In a long black veil she cries over my bones
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
             A      E   
Nobody knows nobody sees


[Outro]
A      B7    E      A      B7    E      A      B7    E      A B7 E
Nobody knows but me nobody knows but me nobody knows but me ■ ■  ■


[End]