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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night, there was
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someone killed 'neath the Town Hall light. There were
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few at the scene, but they all agreed that the
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man who ran looked a lot like me. She
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walks these hill in a long black veil. She
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visits my grave while the night winds wail.
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Nobody knows, nobody sees,
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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 ment my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife.
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The scaffold was high and eternity was near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear.
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries over my bones.
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