Lefty Frizzell – Long Black Veil chords

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Long Black Veil:Lefty Frizzell.
#6 in 1959. (A crossover hit.)

#1.
ETen years ago, on a cold dark night,
B A Ethere was someone killed 'neath the town hall light.
EThere were few were at the scene, but they all agreed,
B A Ethat the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.
#2.
EThe judge said, 'Son, what is your alibi?
B A EIf you were somewhere else then you won't have to die.'
EI spoke not a word though it meant my life,
B A Efor I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
CHORUS:
A E A EShe walks these hills, in a long black veil.
A E A EShe visits my grave, when the night winds wail.
E A E A B ENobody knows, nobody sees..nobody knows, but me.
#3.
EThe scaffold is high, and eternity nears..
B A Eshe stood in the crowd and shed not a tear.
EBut sometimes at night when the cold wind blows,
B A Ein a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones.
CHORUS:
A E A EShe walks these hills, in a long black veil.
A E A EShe visits my grave, when the night winds wail.
E A E A B ENobody knows, nobody sees..nobody knows, but me.
OUTRO:
A B E A B ENobody knows but me...nobody knows but me. (Fade.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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