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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Vocals
Berliner Kaffeehausmusik Ensemble
Strings
Mick Harvey
Background Vocals
Blixa Bargeld
Background Vocals
Thomas Wydler
Percussion
Barry Adamson
Bass
Hugo Race
Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Marijohn Wilkin
Composer
Danny Dill
Composer
Mick Harvey
String Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Producer
Tony Cohen
Producer
Flood
Producer
Mick Harvey
Producer
Blixa Bargeld
Producer
Thomas Wydler
Producer
Lyrics
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
The judge he said: Son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
But I spoke not a word though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife
Now the scaffold is high and eternity is near
She stood in the crowd but shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries on my bones
Writer(s): Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill
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