Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night    Someone was killed beneath the town hall light    There were few at the scene, but they all agreed    That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me       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 judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?    If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die."    Well, I said not a word, though it meant my life    For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife       Oh, 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       Oh now, the scaffold is high, eternity is near    She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear    Oh, sometimes at night when the cold winds blow    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       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, nobody sees, nobody knows but me