Key: F# minor
Intro 1
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C#m
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Verse 1
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Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
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There's a soft cotton dress
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on the line hangin' dry
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Window wide open African trees
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Bent over backwards
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from a hurricane breeze
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She gone with the man
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in the long black coat
Verse 2
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Somebody seen him hangin' around
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At the old dance hall
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on the outskirts of town
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when she stopped him to ask
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If he wanted to dance
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he had a face like a mask
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There was dust on the man
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in the long black coat
Verse 3
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Preacher was talking
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there's a sermon he gave
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He said every man's conscience
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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
Bridge 1
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you can see it that way
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But people don't live or die people just float
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in the long black coat
Verse 4
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There's smoke on the water
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it's been there since June
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Tree trunks uprooted
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beneath the high crescent moon
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and the rumbling force
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Somebody is out there
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beating on a dead horse
there was nothing she wrote
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She gone with the man
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in the long black coat
Outro 1
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