best song lyrics ever

[MidwestMom2Kids_1]

<p>And two choices, perhaps tied, for Saddest Lyrics Ever (I am pathetically sentimental):

And now if I return,
They will hang me
High from the old oak tree
Down by the mission,
Down by the fountain
Where my love told me:</p>

<p>There’s a web like a spider’s web
Made of silver light and shadows
Spun by the moon in my room at night
It’s a web made to catch a dream
Hold it tight til I awaken
As if to tell me my dream is all right

and of course

The judge said, “Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else, then you won’t have to die.”
Well, I said not a word, though it meant my life
For I’d been in the arms of my best friend’s wife</p>

<p>Oh, 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

oddly recently overdone by Garrison Keillor… Ridiculous spoof on last week’s show.</p>