The Kingston Trio – Long Black Rifle (Guitar)

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Come closer, my love, and you'll hear my tale.

       G       F           G        D
I'll make you cold. It'll turn you pale.

       D                     G
It's a tale of a man's never ending love

        F           G
and the long, black rifle.

G              F        G
He wed a woman sworn to another

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and, in a rage, the other man

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Shot him down with a long, black rifle,

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shot him down and away he ran.

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A prairie man loved a city maid.

        G       F              G        D 
Was the love he took worth the price he paid,

       D                  G                
When a man ends up at the smoky end

     F           G 
of a long, black rifle?

    G     F       G         F
His dyin' words I repeat to you:

         G          F         G       D
"You can never kill love when love is true."

   D                   G                   F           G
It lives when only the rust is left of the long, black rifle.

G                 F       G
Shot him down and away he ran.