Man In the Long Black Coat

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high

There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry

Window's wide open African trees

Bent over backwards in a hurricane breeze

Not a word, a goodbye, not even a note

She's gone with the man in the long black coat



Somebody seem him hangin' around

At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town

He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask

If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask

Somebody said, from the Bible he quote

There was dust on the man in the long black coat



Preacher was talkin' there's a sermon he gave

He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved

You cannot depend on it to be your guide

When it's you who must keep it satisfied

It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat

She give her heart to the man in the long black coat



One, two...

There are no mistakes in life some people say

It's true sometimes you can see it that way

People don't live or die, people just float

She give her heart to the man in the long black coat



There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June

Tree trunks uprooted in the high crescent moon

Hear the pulse and vibrations and the rumblin' force

Somebody's out there beating on a dead horse

She never said nothin', there was nothin' she wrote

She's gone with the man in the long black coat


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