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Long Black Veil (1959)
Lefty Frizzell

Lefty Frizzell

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Long Black Veil (1959)

Ten years ago on a cold dark night

There was someone killed neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene, but they all agree

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 had been in the arms of my best friend’s wife



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



The scaffold’s 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



Nobody knows but me

Nobody knows but me


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  "Saginaw, Michigan"   "She's Gone, Gone, Gone"   "Shine, Shave, Shower"   Alway Late With Your Kisses (1951)   Always Late (With Your Kisses)   Brakeman's Blues (yodeling The Blues Away)   Cigarettes & Coffee Blues   Don't Let Her See Me Cry   Don't Stay Away (till Love Grows Cold)   Forever (And Always)   How Far Down Can I Go   How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You)   I Can't Get Over You To Save My Life   I Don't Trust You Anymore   I Just Came Here to Dance   I Love You a Thousand Ways   I Love You A Thousand Ways (1951)   I Love You Mostly   I Never Go Around Mirrors   I Want to Be With You Always   I Was Coming Home To You   I'm An Old, Old Man (1953)   I'm Not The Man I Supposed To Be   If You Can Spare The Time   If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time   It Meant Goodbye To Me (when She Said Hello To Him   It's Bad   James River   Little Unfair   Lonely Heart   Look What Thoughts Will Do   Lost Love Blues   Love Looks Good On You   Lucky Arms   Lullaby Yodel   Midnight Turning Day Blues (blue Yodel No.6)   Mom & Dad's Waltz (1951)   Mom and Dad's Waltz   My Lovin' Gal Lucille (blue Yodel No.2)   My Old Pal   My Rough and Rowdy Ways   Nobody Knows But Me   Railroad Lady   Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)   Run 'Em Off (1954)   Saginaw, Michigan   Saginaw, Michigan (1964)   She's Gone Gone Gone   She's Gone, Gone, Gone (1965)   Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday Night) (1951)   Signed Sealed And Delivered   Stranger   That's The Way Love Goes   The Long Black Veil   There's No Food In This House   Travellin' Blues   Treasure Untold   Watermelon Time In Georgia   When It Rains The Blues   Woman Let Me Sing You A Song   You Want Everything but Me   You Want Everything But Me [#]

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