Man In The Long Black Coat Lyrics - Relish - Joan Osborne

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high 

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

Window's wide open African trees 

Bent over backwards in a hurricane breeze 

Not a word, a goodbye, not even a note 

She's gone with the man in the long black coat 

Somebody seem him hangin' around 

At 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 quote 

There was dust on the man in the long black coat 

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Preacher was talkin' 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 give her heart to the man in the long black coat 

One, two... 

There are no mistakes in life some people say 

It's true sometimes you can see it that way 

People don't live or die, people just float 

She give her heart to 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 uprooted in the high crescent moon 

Hear the pulse and vibrations and the rumblin' force 

Somebody's out there beating on a dead horse 

She never said nothin', there was nothin' she wrote 

She's gone with the man in the long black coat 

She's gone with the man in the long black coat 

She's gone 

She's gone 

Gone with the man in the long black coat 

Gone with the man in the long black coat