Live 26 Apr 2006 version
[Spoken intro:] There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief
| Bruce Springsteen: | Well ten years ago, on a cold dark night |
| There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light | |
| There were few at the scene, yeah but they all agreed | |
| That the man who ran looked a lot like me | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Well she walks these hills in a long black veil |
| Visits my grave where the night winds wail — Say it! | |
| Nobody knows, darling, nobody sees | |
| Nobody knows but me | |
| Marc Anthony Thompson: | The judge said, "Son what is your alibi |
| If you were somewhere else, then you don't have to die" | |
| I said not a word, though it crushed my life | |
| 'Cause I was in the arms of my best friend's wife | |
| All: | She walks these hills in a long black veil |
| She visits my grave where the night winds wail | |
| Nobody knows, nobody sees | |
| Nobody knows but me | |
| All: | She walks these hills in a long black veil |
| She visits my grave where the night winds wail | |
| Nobody knows, nobody sees | |
| Nobody knows but me | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Well the gallows were close and eternity near |
| She stood in the crowd and she shed not a tear | |
| Springsteen and Thomson: | Sometimes at night when the cold winds blow |
| In a long black veil she cries over my bones | |
| Springsteen and Patti Scialfa: | She walks these hills in a long black veil |
| She visits my grave where the night winds wail | |
| Nobody knows, nobody sees | |
| Nobody knows but me | |
| All: | Nobody knows, nobody sees |
| Nobody knows but me | |
| Nobody knows, nobody sees | |
| Nobody knows but me | |
| Nobody knows, nobody sees | |
| Nobody knows but me |
LONG BLACK VEIL is a song originally released by Lefty Frizzell in 1959. See the original Lefty Frizzell version for more details.
Matt Orel wrote in the issue #86 (Spring 2007) of Backstreets magazine that LONG BLACK VEIL was considered for inclusion on the American Land Edition of the We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album.
The above lyrics are for the live 26 Apr 2006 performance of LONG BLACK VEIL at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ, during a public rehearsal show for The Seeger Sessions Tour.
In preparation for The Seeger Sessions Tour, LONG BLACK VEIL was performed during one of the tour's four public warm-up rehearsal shows that took place in April 2006 in Asbury Park. The song is also known to have been practiced during at least one of the private rehearsals that took place in Mar-Apr 2006 in Asbury Park prior to the tour's first leg, and during at least one of the private rehearsals that took place in September 2006 in Asbury Park prior to the tour's second European leg.
LONG BLACK VEIL was performed 9 times during The Seeger Sessions Tour (56 dates, April to November 2006).
List of available versions of LONG BLACK VEIL on this website:
LONG BLACK VEIL [Live 26 Apr 2006 version]