Ten years ago on a cool, dark night   There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light   There were few at the scene but they all did 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 although 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 is high and eternity is neared   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      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