}x2 Crickets are chirpin' the water is high There's a soft cotton dress? on the line hangin' dry Windows wide open African trees Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze Not a word, a goodbye, not even a note She gone with the man in the long black coat Somebody singing 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 him to be your guide And it's you who must keep it satisfied It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat To give her heart to the man in the long black coat There are no mistakes in life some people say And it's true sometimes you can see it that way 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 its been there since June Tree trunks uprooted neath the high passing moon Feel the pulse and vibrations and the rumblin' force Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse She never said nothin', there was nothin' she wrote She went with the man in the long black coat
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