Key: F
Introduction: F#m
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Crickets are chirping, the water is high
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There's a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
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Windows wide open, African trees
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Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
E
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
F#m A
She gone with the man
E F#m
In the long black coat
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Somebody seen him hanging around
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At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
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He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
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If he wanted to dance, he had a face like a mask
E
Somebody said from the Bible he quote
F#m A
There was dust on the man
E F#m
In the long black coat
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Preacher was a talking, there's a sermon he gave
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He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
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You cannot depend on it to be your guide
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When it's you who must keep it satisfied
E
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat
F#m A
She gave her heart to the man
E F#m
In the long black coat
D A
There are no mistakes in life some people say
F#m E F#m
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
D A
But people don't live or die, people just float
F#m A
She went with the man
E F#m
In the long black coat
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There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June
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Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon
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Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
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Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
E
She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote
F#m A
She gone with the man
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In the long black coat