The Long Black Rifle - Gimbel/Kingston Trio/Coleman
Come closer my love and you'll hear my tale
It'll make you cold
It'll turn you pale
It's a tale of a man's never ending love
And the long black rifle
He wed a woman sworn to another
And in a rage the other man
Shot him down with a long black rifle
Shot him down and away he ran
A prairie man loved a city maid
Was the love he took worth the price he paid
When a man ends up
At the smoky end of a long black rifle
He wed a woman sworn to another
And in a rage the other man
Shot him down with a long black rifle
Shot him down and away he ran
His dyin' words I repeat to you
You can never kill love when love is true
It lives when only the rust
Is left of the long black rifle
He wed a woman sworn to another
And in a rage the other man
Shot him down with a long black rifle
Shot him down and away he ran
Shot him down and away he ran
