Chords for Johnny Cash & Joni Mitchell - The Long Black Veil

_ _ _ _ _ _ You're from Saskatchewan, right?
What do they call someone from Saskatchewan?
_ _ Saskatchewanians.
_ [G#] _
Saskatchewanians.
And you're from Arkansas.
[A#] Yeah.
And what do they call you?
_ _ Well, I better [D#] not repeat it to a [C#] nice lady like you.
Ha ha ha. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night,
_ [G#] _ someone was killed [F#] in the town _ [C#] hall light. _
There were few at the scene, _ but they all agreed
[G#] that the slayer who ran looked [F#] a lot [C#] like me. _ _ _
[F#] She walked the [C#] _ hill [F#] in a long [C#] black thing. _ _ _
[F#] She visited [C#] my grave [F#] when the [D#] night [C#] went away. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Nobody knows, _
[F#] _ _ [C#] nobody sees, [F#] _ _
_ [G#] nobody _ [C#] knows but you. _
_ _ _ _ The judge said, son, what is your _ alibi?
If [G#] you were _ somewhere else, _
[F#] you won't [C#] have to die.
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life.
[G#] I dimmed the arms [F#] of my best [C#] friend's wife.
_ _ Now the scaffold stood high and _ eternity was near.
[G#] She stood in the crowd, but [F#] she shed [C#] not a tear. _ _
_ But _ sometimes at night, when the _ cold wind calls,
[G#] she comes to my grave [F#] and she moans over [C#] my _ _ _ bones.
[F#] She walked the [C#] hill [F#] in a long [C#] black thing. _ _ _ _
[F#] She visited [C#] my grave [F#] when the night went away. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Nobody _ _ _ _ _ _ sees, _ [F#] _ _ [G#] nobody _ knows [C#] but _ me. _
_ _ _ Nobody _ knows, [F#] _ nobody [C#] _ sees, _ [F#] _
nobody [G#] _ knows [C#] but me. _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
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