Man in the Long Black Coat - Bob Dylan
(Oh Mercy - Columbia - 1989)
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Crickets are [A] chirpin', the [E] water is [C#m] high,
There's a [F#m] soft cotton [A] dress on the [E] line hangin' [F#m] dry.
Window wide [A] open, [E] African [C#m] trees
[F#m]Bent over [A] backwards from a [E] hurricane [F#m] breeze.
Not a [E] word of goodbye, not even a note
She [F#m] gone with the [A] man in the [E] long black [F#m] coat.
Somebody [A] seen him [E] hangin' a[C#m]round
At the [F#m] old dance [A] hall on the [E] outskirts of [F#m] town.
He looked into her [A] eyes when she [E] stopped him to [C#m] ask
If he [F#m] wanted to [A] dance, he had a [E] face like a [F#m] mask.
[E]Somebody said from the bible he'd quote
There was [F#m] dust on the [A] man in the [E] long black [F#m] coat.
Preacher was [A] talking, there's a [E] sermon he [C#m] gave
He said [F#m] every man's [A] conscience is [E] vile and de[F#m]praved
You cannot de[A]pend on it [E] to be your [C#m] guide
When it's [F#m] you who [A] must keep [E] it satis[F#m]fied
It ain't ea[E]sy to swallow, it sticks in the throat
She gave her [F#m] heart to the [A] man in the [E] long black [F#m] coat.
There [D] are no mistakes in life [A] some people say
It is [F#m] true sometimes you can [E] see it that way [F#m]
But [D] people don't live or die [A] people just float
She [F#m] went with the [A] man in the [E] long black [F#m] coat.
There's smoke on the [A] water, it's [E] been there since [C#m] June
[F#m]Tree trunks un[A]prooted ‘neath the [E] high crescent [F#m] moon
Feel the pulse and vi[A]bration and the [E] rumbling [C#m] force
[F#m]Somebody is [A] out there beating [E] on a dead [F#m] horse
She [E] never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote
She [F#m] gone with the [A] man in the [E] long black [F#m] coat.
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