"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a song by Northern Irish musician Gary Moore, released in December 1986 by 10 Records as the first single from his sixth solo album Wild Frontier.

It was also recorded by Japanese singer Minako Honda, titled "The Cross (Ai No Jujika)", with Moore on guitar.

The song is about a man wrongfully accused of armed robbery, but won't tell who his alibi is as it is the wife of his best friend, with whom he was sleeping.

During prison he receives love letters from the woman and "he swears he will return one day", so "back in his arms is where she'll be".

[6] The song's subject matter is very similar to that of the 1959 country ballad "Long Black Veil", which also involves a wrongfully-convicted man who refuses to give an alibi because it would reveal his affair with his best friend's wife.