Man In The Long Black Coat Chords by Joan Osborne

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_ Crickets [Bb] are chirping, [F] the water [Dm] is high [Gm] There's a soft [Bb] cotton dress, _ sunlight ain't
[Gm] dry _ The window's wide open, _ [F] African [Dm] _ _ [Gm] trees
Bet [Bb] all the blackbirds [F] in a hurricane [Gm] _ _ breeze _ [F] Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
[Gm] She's gone [Bb] with a man [F] in the long [Gm] black coat _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Somebody's seen [F] him _ [Dm] hanging around
[Gm] At the old [Bb] dance hall [F] on the outskirts of [Gm] town He looked into [Bb] her eyes [F] and she stopped
him to [Dm] _ ask [Gm] If he wanted [Bb] to dance, he [F] had a face [Gm] like a
_ mask _ _ [F] Somebody _ said from the Bible [F] he'd quote
There [Gm] was just [Bb] a man in [F] the long black [Gm] _ coat The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ preacher was [Bb] talking, [F] there was a sermon
he [Dm] _
gave He [Gm] said every [Bb] man's conscience [F] is vile and
[Gm] depraved You cannot _ [Bb] depend on it [F] to be your [Dm] guide
[Gm] When it's you, _ [Bb] _ _ [F] keep it _ [Gm] inside _ _ It [F] ain't easy to swallow the sticks in
_ She gave [Gm] her heart to the [Bb] man in the long [Gm] black coat _ _
_ _ One, two, there [Eb] are no homes _ _ [Bb] Some people say it's [Gm] truth _ _
[F] You can see it that [Gm] way _ _ [Eb] People don't live alright
[Bb] People just float She gave [Gm] her heart to the [Bb] man [F] in the long [Gm] black coat _ _
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There's smoke [Bb] on the water [F] It's been there [Dm] since June
[Gm] Tree trunks [Bb]
uprooted in the [F] high crescent [Gm] moon
[G] Hear the pulse and [Bb] vibration [F] and the rumbling [Dm] force
[Gm] _ Somebody _ out there [F] beating on a dead [Gm] horse _ She [F] never said nothing, there was nothing
She rode with _ [Bb] the man [F] in the long [Gm] black coat _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ She's gone [Bb] with the man [F] in the _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] long black coat _
_ She's gone, _ _ she's gone, _ _ _ gone with _ _ _ [Fm] the man in the [G] long black coat
_ Gone [Gm] with the man in the [G] long [Gm] black coat
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