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Another song I covered at The Vera Project’s Johnny Cash tribute show a few years ago. Of Course this version is more influenced by The Band's version on Big Pink than anything else… I didn’t really care for Johnny Cash back then (that’s since been remedied) but scurried to come up with some good stuff for the show. On a side note, if you saw me perform that night, I was faking keyboards.
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me
Now 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 is high, and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd, and shed not a tear
But some times at night, when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil, she cries over my bones
Now 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 judge said son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife
Now 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
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows, but me
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from
Cover Lover,
released September 7, 2012
Written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and made famous by Johnny Cash and The Band
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