Kingston Trio – The Long Black Rifle lyrics

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

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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?

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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

(Chorus)
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