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What do you do: The Long Black Veil scenario

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by SmeggySmeg, Dec 21, 2003.

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  1. SmeggySmeg

    SmeggySmeg Member

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    Some of might not the song, but if not here's the start of it.

    Ten years ago on a cool dark night
    There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
    There were few at the scene and they all did agree
    That the man who ran looked a lot like me

    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 although it meant my life
    I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

    She walks these hills in a long black veil
    She visits my grave where the night winds wail
    Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees
    Nobody knows but me

    The scaffold was high and eternity neared
    She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
    But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
    In a long black veil she cries over my bones


    So what do you do, speak up tell them you were with your best friends wife or stay silence and die.
     
  2. AntiSonic

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    **** dying. Best friend can always find someone else.
     
  3. fadeaway

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    Tabernac... That guy was a moron.
     
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    Smeg... if it were anyone but you, I would totally make fun of your lack of dictation in the first sentence.:p

    (you can officially make fun of anything I do from here on oit)
     
  5. RunninRaven

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    As someone else pointed out, screw dying. Odds are any affair with your best friends wife wouldn't last anyway.

    However, I'm thinking that you might could get the best friend's wife to make up a story as your alibi (she saw you out front of your house doing yardwork or something) and tell it in court so that you are okay.
     
  6. Rocketman95

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    Um, I'm thinking that if you're screwing around with your best friend's wife, he's not really your best friend.

    Dave does an amazing cover to this song, BTW.
     
  7. pasox2

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    Hmm...why are you asking ;)? Who's your best friend?
     
  8. ima_drummer2k

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    Who did this song originally?

    BTW, did you see the VH1 Driven episode on DMB this weekend?
     
  9. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    Johnny Cash and no. A friend called me while it was on, but we were about to head out for dinner. Was it any good? I think it's being rerun sometime this week.
     
  10. ima_drummer2k

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    Yeah, it was very good. Lot's of Charlottesburg pre-record deal footage, back when Carter played on a piece of crap drumset. :D
     
  11. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Sorry, RM95, but it's one of my fav songs. I don't usually like being a factoid picky nerd. I prefer my normal nerdacy.

    It was first recorded by the Kingston Trio in 1959, unless I'm mistaken. Johnny, bless him, may have been one of the first people to cover it.

    The lyrics were written by Danny Dill, supposedly, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry.

    From a nerdy Kingston Trio website:

    "PRODUCTION NOTES: Recorded March 3, 1959 (19:00-23:00) at Bradley Film & Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee; Producer: Don Law
    Lefty Frizzell: vocal/guitar; Thomas Grady Martin: guitar/leader; Harold Ray Bradley: guitar; Donald Helms: steel guitarchorus; Joseph S. Zinkan: bass; Murry M. "Buddy" Harman, Jr.: drums; Marijohn Wilkin: piano; unknown: vocal .

    New Frontier: The label on the LP album "New Frontier" credits Lefty Frizzel with the composition of "Long Black Veil." This credit is an ERROR. The credit should read Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill. Frizzel made one of the earliest recordings of "Long Black Veil."
     
  12. Rocketman95

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    Cool, I didn't know that.

    Unfortunately, the only reason I knew it was Johnny Cash at all was because they did a tribute for him a few years ago and Dave and Emmylou Harris sang this song.

    Great song.
     
  13. The Voice of Reason

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    Well, the addage goes Friends are forever women are temporary.
    or something like that.

    I suppose if she is your best friends wife, you knew her before they got together. you are only with her now because you can, and because their relationship has faltered. Would your best friend want you dead after you told him? maybe. would he forgive you before he forgave her? definately. Guys are very forgiving as our relationships are very strong, but also very shallow. as long as we still have fun together we will hang. so 2 single dudes will still hang. Sure you might get a sound beating, but a solid drinking would surely follow.
    She would lose you and lose her husband and her dignity. but she would not have to live with the guilt of "killing"you. Your best friend will eventually be thankfull to be rid of the cheating b****.

    I say spill the beans.

    there are always other women.
     
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    Well, you might think that he is your best friend, but you are definatly not his best friend.
     
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    i think your sig should say david john matthews not jacob....if youre quoting dave matthews from DMB.
     
  16. Rocketman95

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    God, you're right. I feel like an idiot.
     
  17. oldman

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    its all good. the best of whats around is my favorite song by the way.
     
  18. Rocketman95

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    One of the best. You'd think someone that's seen him 16 times would have the name down, but hey, at least it started with the same letter!

    :)
     
  19. SmeggySmeg

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    no not at all

    always loved the song, absolutely love the Mick Jagger and Chieftans version and was downloading a few other versions on the weekend and thought it seemed an interesting question.

    definitely alot easy these days, with dna evidence etc and also the softening views on a woman having an affair, affairs were a lot more taboo in the time the song is written about and especially for a woman, if either had spoken out she would have been a complete outcast

    RM95 - the DMB version is very good, there is also a DMB with emmi-lou harris.
     
  20. SmeggySmeg

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    RM95 - you should listen to the Jagger-Chieftans version, one of the best i reckon
     

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