1.

G   /       /   /   |G    /    / 
Ten years a-go, on a cold dark night,
/        |D    /    /        /        |C    /   |G     / / / 
There was some-body killed, 'neath the town hall light,
   |G   /        /   /     |/   /   /
The peo-ple that saw - they all - a-greed,
/       |D     /      /    /       |C   /     |G  / / /
That the slay- er who ran, looked a lot - like me.

2.

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 had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.

chorus:

   |C     /     G     /     |C    /    |G   / / /
She walks these hills - in a long black veil,
   |C      /    /     /         |C     /       /    / | 
She visits - my grave - when the night - winds wail,
G     /    /       |/    /    /    / |
-  No-body knows -  - no-body sees,
C    /    /     /    |G  / / / |
- No-body knows - but me.

3.

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 blows,
In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones.

chorus:

coda:

C  /    D     /    |G
No-body knows - but me.