The song The Long Black Veil is performed by Bill Monroe in the album named Anthology in the year 2003 .
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That this lad who ran looked a lot like me
The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word, although it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
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
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Bill Monroe - Anthology
- When The Cactus Is In Bloom
- Get Down On Your Knees And Pray
- Walking In Jerusalem Just Like John
- Panhandle Country
- Linda Lou
- Time Changes Everything
- Live And Let Live
- Old Joe Clark
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Drifting Too Far From The Shore
- Somebody Touched Me
- Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Devil's Dream
- Highway Of Sorrow
- (We're Goin') Just Over In The Gloryland
- Fire On The Mountain
- The Long Black Veil
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight