CAPO 3

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high

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

Windows wide open African trees

Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze

Not a word, a goodbye, not even a note

She gone with the man in the long black coat

Somebody singing 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

Preacher was talkin' there's a sermon he gave

He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved

You cannot depend on him to be your guide

And it's you who must keep it satisfied

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

To give her heart to the man in the long black coat

There are no mistakes in life some people say

And it's true sometimes you can see it that way

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 its been there since June

Tree trunks uprooted neath the high passing moon

Feel the pulse and vibrations and the rumblin' force

Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse

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

She went with the man in the long black coat