Country Gentlemen

Long Black Veil Ukulele Chords

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Date:10/9/97
subject: Long Black Veil
transcribed by: Brad Kale at "hankspad@hotmail.com"


Long Black Veil
by Wilkins and Dill
as played by The Country Gentlemen


(F)
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
            (G)                           {F}   (F)
there was someone killed 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene but they all agreed
           (G)                    {F}      (F)
that the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

The judge said son what is your alibi
if you were somewhere else than 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 friends wife

(chorus)
     {F}       (F)        {F}        (F)
She walks the hills in a long black veil
     {F}       (F)            {F}        (F)
she visits my grave when the night winds wail
                {F}   (F)
nobody knows, nobody sees
{F}     (G)      (F)
nobody knows but me.


The scaffold was high and eternity near
she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
in a long black veil, she cries over my bones.