Long Black Veil
Country GentlemenVersion1
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{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}there was someone killed 'neath the town hall lightThere were few at the scene but they all agreedthat the slayer who ran, looked a lot like meThe judge said son what is your alibiif you were somewhere else than you don't have to die.I spoke not a word, though it meant my lifefor I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife(chorus)She walks the hills in a long black veilshe visits my grave when the night winds wailnobody knows, nobody seesnobody knows but me.The scaffold was high and eternity nearshe stood in the crowd and shed not a tearBut sometimes at night when the cold wind moansin a long black veil, she cries over my bones.
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Arrangement source for Long Black Veil by Country Gentlemen
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
T[G]en years ago on a cold dark night
[D] {[C]} [G]
there was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
[D] {[C]} [G]
that the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me
The judge said son what is your alibi
if you were somewhere else than you don'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
(chorus)
{[C]} [G] {[C]} [G]
She walks the hills in a long black veil
{[C]} [G] {[C]} [G]
she visits my grave when the night winds wail
{[C]} [G]
nobody knows, nobody sees
{[C]} [D] [G]
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 moans
in a long black veil, she cries over my bones.The chord source is shown as supplied because its ChordPro syntax could not be parsed.