And Eternity Near...

Ten years ago
    on a cold dark night
There was someone killed
    'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene
    but they all agree
That the slayer 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
    though it meant my life
For I had 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's high
    and eternity near
She stood in the crowd
    and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night
    when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil
    she cries o'er my bones.

          -"Long Black Veil"
            Lefty Frizzell