Ten years ago on cold, dark night
Someone was killed by the town hall light
The people who say, they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

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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 judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

[Chorus]
Shе walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my gravе when the night winds wail
Nobody knows; nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The scaffold is high, eternity's near
She stands the in the crowd, she sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In her long black veil she cries o'er my bones

[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