Long Black Veil The Band
Subject: b/band/long_black_veil.crd
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:30:29 -0400
From: Lee J Campbell
Title: "Long Black Veil"
Artist: the Band
Album: Music from Big Pink
I'm pretty sure that this isn't in the same key as the one on the record, but it's easier for me to sing
with this key for some reason. I think this is a folk song; it was written by Marijohn Wilkin and Danny
An Irish band called the Cheftains do a really great version of this same song with Mick Jagger doing the lead vocals.
"Long Black Veil" by the Band
[E]Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was [B]someone killed 'neath the [Am]town hall [E]light
[E]There were few at the scene and they all did agree
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That the [B]man who ran looked a [Am]lot like [E]me.
[E]The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were [B]somewhere else then [Am]you won't have to [E]die."
[E]I said not a word though it meant my life,
I had [B]been in the arms of my [Am]best friend's [E]wife.
[Am]She walks these [E]hills [Am]in a long black [E]veil.
[Am]She visits my gr[E]ave [Am]when the night winds [E]wail.
[E]Nobody knows, no, and [Am]nobody [E]sees; [E]nobody [B]knows but [Am]me.
[E]The scaffold was high and eternity near
She [B]stood in the crowd and [Am]shed not a [E]tear
[E]But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a [B]long black veil she [Am]cries over my [E]bones.
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave where the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees; nobody knows but me.
submitted by Kyle Still
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