Key: C major
Verse 1
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Ten years ago on
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a cold dark night
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near the town hall light
There were a few at the scene,
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but they all agreed
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was down there with me
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The judge said, son,
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what is your act all about?
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you won't have to die
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He spoke not a word,
though it meant his life
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His be st friend of mine
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And now I walk these hills
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In a long black veil I visit His grave
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When 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, eternity near
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and I shed not one tear
But sometimes at night,
when the cold wind moans
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And Lord, I pray, I cry for His bones
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And I'll call this game in a long black vein
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I'll visit his grave
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when the night withers away
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Nobody knows, nobody sees,
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nobody knows but me.
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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night,
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Someone's killed,
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