Live 11 Jun 2006 version
[Spoken intro:] Yes, yes. Thank you. Yes, yes, thank you. That's Marty Rifkin on the steel guitar, he's from California, played on the "Tom Joad" record, the "Devils & Dust" record. There's a gentleman following me around, been asking for this song. A stalker, I mean a true fan. That's right. I'm gonna do this one for him tonight. (someone yells "??? stalker") Oh, there's my stalker. (chuckles) I only have one this time, just one (chuckles).
| Bruce Springsteen: | Ten years ago, on a cold dark night |
| There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light | |
| There were few there at the scene, yeah but they all agreed | |
| That the man who ran looked a lot like me | |
| 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 | |
| Marc Anthony Thompson: | 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 | |
| '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 | |
| Marc Anthony Thompson: | And sometimes at night when the cold wind blows |
| 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 |
The above lyrics are for the live 11 Jun 2006 performance of LONG BLACK VEIL at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, MN, during The Seeger Sessions Tour.
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LONG BLACK VEIL [Live 26 Apr 2006 version]