Long Black Veil (Dill & Wilkin)

LONG BLACK VEIL (Danny Dill & Marijohn Wilkin / Lefty Frizzell)
tabbed by Douglas Thompson (bananaco9@gmail.com)

   Chords Used:
E|--1--|--0--|--3--|
B|--1--|--1--|--3--|
G|--2--|--0--|--0--|
D|--3--|--2--|--0--|
A|--3--|--3--|--2--|
E|--1--|-----|--3--|
    F  |  C  |  G  |


[Riff 1]
E|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|-----9-----9----9-----|
D|----10-------12---12--|
A|----------------------|
E|-8--------------------|


[Riff 2]
E|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----7-----------|
D|----9----10-----|
A|---10-----8-----|
E|----------------|


[Riff 1]
Intro

[Riff 1]            [Riff 1]
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
[Riff 2]                      [Riff 1]       [Riff 1]
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light
[Riff 1]                         [Riff 1]
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
         [Riff 2]                [Riff 1]      [Riff 1]
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me


    [Riff 1]              [Riff 1] 
The judge said, son, what is your alibi
            [Riff 2]                 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
      [Riff 1]                    [Riff 1]
But I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
        [Riff 2]               [Riff 1]          [Riff 1]
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife


    F           C          F          C
She walks these hills in a long black veil
    F         C              F           C
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
C             F
Nobody knows, nobody sees
G                  [Riff 1]  [Riff 1]
Nobody knows but me


        [Riff 1]              [Riff 1]         
Oh, the scaffold is high and eternity's near
    [Riff 2]                          [Riff 1]    [Riff 1]
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
[Riff 1]                     [Riff 1]      
But late at night, when the north wind blows
     [Riff 2]                           [Riff 1]    [Riff 1]
In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones


    F           C          F          C
She walks these hills in a long black veil
    F         C              F           C
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
C             F
Nobody knows, nobody sees
G                  [Riff 1]  [Riff 1]
Nobody knows but me
C             F
Nobody knows, nobody sees
G                  [Riff 1]  [Riff 1]
Nobody knows but me

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