Bob Dylan – Man In The Long Black Coat (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: "Oh Mercy" (1989) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Too many barre chords? Transpose -2 and use a capo 2nd fret to match the original key. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro]

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time signature: 6/8 | F#m| % | | F#m A | E C#m | F#m A | E F#m | | F#m A | E C#m | F#m A |3/4 E | F#m | % | | E | % | F#m A |3/4 E | F#m | % | [Verse 1]

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Crickets are chirpin’, the water is high

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

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The windows wide open, African trees

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Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze

      E                    E
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note

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She gone with the man in the long black coat

[Verse 2]

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Somebody seen him hanging around

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At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town

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He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask

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If he wanted to dance, he had a face like a mask

E                      E
Somebody said from the Bible he’d quote

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There was dust on the man in the long black coat

[Verse 3]

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Preacher was a-talkin’, there’s a sermon he gave

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He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved

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You cannot depend on it to be your guide

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When it’s you who must keep it satisfied

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

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

[Middle 8]

      D                       A
There are no mistakes in life some people say

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It is true sometimes you can see it that way

    D                         A
But people don't live or die, people just float

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She went with the man in the long black coat

[Verse 4]

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There’s smoke on the water, it’s a-been there since June

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Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon

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Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force

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Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse

    E                             E
She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote

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She gone with the man in the long black coat

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