Man In The Long Black Coat

Album: Oh Mercy (1989)
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  • Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
    There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
    Window wide open African trees
    Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
    Not a word of goodbye not even a note
    She gone with the man in the long black coat

    Somebody seen 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'd quote
    There was dust on the man in the long black coat

    Preacher was talking 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 gave her heart to the man in the long black coat

    There are no mistakes in life some people say
    It is true sometimes you can see it that way
    But people don't live or die people just float
    She went with the man in the long black coat

    There's smoke on the water it's been there since June
    Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon
    Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
    Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
    She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote
    She gone with the man in the long black coat Writer/s: Bob Dylan
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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