Long
Black Veil
Artist: The
Chieftains
Composers: Marijohn
Wilkin & Danny Hill
Original performer: Lefty
Frizzell (1959)
First release: Long Black Veil album, January 1995
Recording date: September
30-October 1, 1993
Recording location: Windmill
Lane Recording Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Producer: Paddy
Moloney with Chris Kimsey
Chief engineer:
Chris
Kimsey
Line-up:
Bass: Darryl
Jones & James Blennerhassett
Fiddles: Martin
Fay & Sean Keane
Guitar: Colin
James
Mandolin: Colin
James
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger & Kevin Conneff
Keyboards: Derek
Bell
Pipes: Paddy
Moloney
Tin whistle: Paddy
Moloney
Flute: Matt Molloy
Bodhran: Kevin
Conneff
Didjeridu: Steve
Cooney
Harp: Derek Bell
Ten years ago
On a cold dark night
There was someone killed
'Neath the town hall light
Just a few at the scene
And they all did agreee
That the man who ran
Looked a lot like me
Well the judge said, Son
What's your alibi?
If you were somewhere else
Well you don't have to die
And I spoke not a word
Though it meant my life
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, Lord
Nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Well the scaffold's high
And eternity nears
And she stands in the crowd
And sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night
Where the cold wind moans
In a long black veil
She cries all over my bones
She walks these hills
In a long black veil
She visits my grave
When the night winds wail
Nobody knows, Lord
Nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Nobody knows but me
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