Chords for Mike Nesmith*Long Black Veil*

_ [F#] The next song is an old traditional tune I learned sitting knees to knees with a guitar player _
The way he taught it to me is not like any record that I've ever heard of it, but that's okay
That's kind of the way it is with these traditional songs
_ _ _ _ Truman Capote said that into all great art there is a little murder _
_ _ This song contains a little murder and also _ a bizarre sense of fidelity _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It's at least strange, one of my favorite tunes _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ But they all _ agree that the [C#] man who threw in [B] built a lot like [F#] _ _ _ me _
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What's your attitude _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ [C#] with someone _ else?
[B] Then you don't have [F#] to die _ _
_ [A] _ [F#] I spoke naughty _ words, though it meant my [A] life
[C#] I was _ in the arms of [B] a mother [F#] in time
_ _ _ _ [B] She washed [F#] these shoes _ [B] in a long black [F#] rain
_ [B] Was it [F#] _ smokey when the [B] night [F#] breeze went _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in? _ _ _
No one [A#m] _ _ knows [D#m] and _ nobody _ sees
_ [B] _ Nobody _ [A#] _ knows
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_ _ _ _ _ [F#] I stand at the gallows, I _ disdain these [F#m] men
[C#m] _ [C#] She stands in the crowd, [B] but she's [F#] not a _ demon
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It's [F#] still there _ _ _ _ when the cold gets to me _
[C#m] She [C#] visits _ my grave _ [B] in a long black [F#] veil _
_ _ _ _ [B] She washed these [F#] shoes _ [B] in a long black [F#] veil
_ _ [B] She _ [F#] visits my grave when [B] the night _ [F#] brings _ _ _ _ rain
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_ _ No one _ [Fm] _ _ [D#m] _
_ _ _ knows and nobody sees [F#] _ [B] _ Nobody _ [C#] _ knows
I [F#] _ stand _ _ _ at the gallows, I disdain these men
She washed _ [G#] _ _ _
_ [D#m] _ these _ _ _ _
[F#] _ [B] shoes in a long [F#] black veil _ _
She _ _ _ washed these _
[F#m] shoes in a long black veil
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