Man In The Long Black Coat lyrics

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high,

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

Window wide ope,n 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.

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.

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.

• Artist:Bob Dylan
• Album:Oh Mercy (1989)