Ten years ago, on a cold dark night   Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light   There were few at the scene but they all agreed   That this lad 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'd 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 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      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