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Ten years ago on a cold dark night 
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There was someone shot 'neath the town hall light 
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Few were at the scene but they all agree 
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That the man did the shooting looked a lot like me 
 
The judge said "Son, what is your alibi 
If you were somewhere else you won'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 
 

 
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She walks these hills in a long black veil 
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She visits my grave while the night winds wail 
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Nobody knows, nobody sees, 
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Nobody knows but me
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The scaffold was high, and eternity near 
She stood in the crowd, but she shed not a tear 
But sometimes late at night, when the cold wind moans 
She visits my grave, and she cries o'er my bones 
 
(Chorus)