MY LONG BLACK VEIL
Alternative lyrics as recorded by Marijohn Wilkin herself on a 45 rpm in 1961

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
The few at the scene were wrong as could be
Cause the man they accused that night was with me

But what could he do and what could he say
For that one stolen night he just had to pay
He couldn't tell a soul that I was out with him
Cause the whole town knew I belonged to his best friend

Now I walk these hills in my long black veil
I visit his grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The scaffold was high I knew his dead was near
I stood in the crowd and shed unseen tears
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In my long black veil I weep for his bones

I walk these hills in my long black veil
I visit his grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me