SONG, LYRICS & TABS

Artist:	Bob Dylan
Album:	Oh Mercy
Date:	1989
Title:	Man In The Long Black Coat
Lyrics:	Bob Dylan
Music:	Bob Dylan

Em           G             Am       Em
Crickets are chirpin', the water is high
Em                    G            Am           Em
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
Em                G     Am      Em
The window's wide open, African trees
Em           G             Am        Em
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
      C/A7                 G
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
      Em                       Am         Em
She'd gone with the man in the long black coat


Em       G        Am       Em
Somebody seen him hangin' around
Em               G           Am           Em
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
Em                 G             Am             Em
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
Em              G               Am          Em
If he wanted to dance, he had a face like a mask
C/A7                   G
Somebody said from the Bible he'd quote
          Em                     Am         Em
There was dust on the man in the long black coat


Em             G                  Am        Em
Preacher was a-talkin', there's a sermon he gave
Em                  G             Am       Em
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
Em           G          Am         Em
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
Em                G    Am           Em
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
   C/A7                      G
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat
             Em                      Am         Em
She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat


C                              G
There are no mistakes in life, some people say
         Am                      C           Em
And it's true sometimes, you can see it that way
    C                         G
But people don't live or die, people just float
    Em                       Am         Em
She went with the man in the long black coat


Em                   G           Am               Em
There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June
Em           G                 Am            Em
Treetrunks uprooted 'neath the high crescent moon
Em                   G               Am       Em
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumblin' force
Em          G                 Am        Em
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
    C/A7                          G
She never said nothin', there was nothin' she wrote
      Em                       Am         Em
She'd gone with the man in the long black coat