Ten years ago on a cold dark night   Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light   Just a few at the scene, and they all did agree   That the man who ran looked a lot like me      The judge said "Son, what's your alibi?   If you were somewheres else, then you won't have to die"   But I spoke not a word, tho' it meant my life   For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife      Chorus:   She walks these hills in a long black veil   Visits my grave when the night winds wail   Nobody knows, nobody sees   Nobody knows, but me      The scaffold is high, eternity near   She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear   But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan   In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones      Chorus