Man In A Long Black Coat

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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  
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Not a word of goodbye, not even a note  
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She gone with the man  
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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  
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Somebody said from the Bible he quote  
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There was dust on the man  
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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  
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It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat  
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She gave her heart to the man  
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In the long black coat  

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There are no mistakes in life some people say  
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It is true sometimes you can see it that way  
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But people don't live or die, people just float  
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She went with the man  
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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  
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She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote  
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She gone with the man  
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In the long black coat  


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