The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47312   Message #705791
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-May-02 - 06:13 AM
Thread Name: The Story Behind The Long Black Veil
Subject: RE: The Story Behind The Long Black Veil
The thing that is different about the Long Black Veil is that it isn't a last goodnight song imagined as sung on the gallows or the night before execution or whatever - the song is envisaged as being sung by the dead man long after he is dead and buried. I can't think of any other songs which take that approach. Plenty of songs where accusing ghosts crop up, but that's not the same thing.