The Starlings: Audio & Lyrics
Long Black Veil
(The Starlings)
March 25, 2006
Marijohn Wilkins/Danny Dill
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed beneath the town hall light
The people who saw, they all agreed
That the stranger 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 don’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
(Refrain)
The scaffold is high, eternity near
She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil, she cries over my bones
(Refrain)