Tombstone Shadow

Album: Green River (1969)
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  • Tombstone shadow, stretchin' across my path
    Tombstone shadow, stretchin' across my path
    Ev'ry time I get some good news, ooh
    There's a shadow on my back

    Saw the gypsy man, 'way down in San Berdoo
    Said, I saw the gypsy man, 'way down in San Berdoo
    Five dollars on the table, ooh
    Keep me 'way from my tomb
    Oh, oh

    Said I got thirteen months of bad luck
    Bound to be some pain
    Don't you do no trav'lin'
    Fly in no machines
    Tombstone shadow, stretchin' across my path

    Every time I get some good news, ooh
    There's a shadow on my back
    Oh, oh, oh

    The man gave me a luck charm, cost five dollars more
    Said, "put some on your pillow and put some on your door"
    You said, "Take a long vacation, ooh
    For thirteen months or more"
    Oh, Lord

    Tombstone shadow, stretchin' across my path
    Tombstone shadow, stretchin' across my path
    Every time I get some good news, ooh
    There's a shadow on my back

    Oh, oh, Lord
    Oh, Lord Writer/s: John Fogerty
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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