The Long Black Rifle Lyrics

The song The Long Black Rifle is performed by The Kingston Trio in the album named The Kingston Trio at Large/Here We Go Again! in the year 2001 .



L. Coleman/N. Gimbel

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.

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.

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?

(Chorus)

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)

Shot him down and away he ran.



The Kingston Trio - The Kingston Trio at Large/Here We Go Again!

Nov 2001

  1. Blow Ye Winds
  2. Corey, Corey
  3. The Seine
  4. I Bawled
  5. Getaway John
  6. The Long Black Rifle
  7. Early In The Mornin'
  8. Haul Away
  9. The Wanderer
  10. 'Round About The Mountain
  11. Oleanna
  12. San Miguel
  13. E Inu Tatou E
  14. Rollin' Stone
  15. Goober Peas
  16. Oh Cindy

The Long Black Rifle