Chords for Marty Stuart - Long Black Veil

_ Everything alright so far? _ _ _ _
_ _ These are my favorite old tunes.
Here's for a couple. _ _
_ _ Ten years ago, on a cold dark night,
[D] Somebody would give [C] me town [G] hall. _ _ _ _ _ _
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
[D] That the slayer who ran [C] looked a lot [G] like me.
_ Well, the judge said, son, what is your alibi?
He [D] was somewhere, _ [C] and you won't [G] have to doubt.
_ _ I swore not a [D] word, [G] though it meant my life.
I had [D] been in the arms of my [C] best friend.
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She [C] was decent [C] in a long black [D] veil.
_ _ [G] _ _ She [C] visited my grave when the night [G] went way.
_ _ _ Nobody _ _ knows, [C] nobody sees, _ [D] nobody [G] knows but me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well, the scaffold is high, he turned and teased me.
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_ _ _ You own the blight, please. _ _
Well, the scaffold is high, he [G] turned and teased me.
[D] She stood in the crowd [A] and shed [G] not a tear.
_ [E] Oh, but sometimes at night, what a cold wind moans.
In a long [D] black veil, she cries over [G] my bones. _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] She walks [G] these hills [A] in a long black veil.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ She [C] [Gm] visits my grave [Cm] when the night [G] went [A#] way.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Nobody knows, [C] _ nobody sees, _ [F#] nobody [G] knows but me.
_ _ _ Nobody knows, [C] _ nobody sees, _ nobody knows [G] but me.
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