The Man In The Long Black Coat Lyrics - Mason Jennings

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high 

There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry 

Window wide open African trees 

Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze 

Not a word of goodbye not even a note 

She gone with the man in the long black coat. 

Somebody seen him hangin' around 

As 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'd quote 

There was dust on the man in the long black coat. 

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Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave 

He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved 

You cannot depend on it to be your guide 

When it's you who must keep it satisfied 

It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat 

She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat. 

There are no mistakes in life some people say 

It is true sometimes you can see it that way 

But people don't live or die people just float 

She went with the man in the long black coat. 

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There's smoke on the water it's been there since June 

Tree trunks unprooted beneath the high crescent moon 

Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force 

Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse 

She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote 

She gone with the man in the long black coat.