Standard (EADGBE)

Tombstone Shadow, stretching across my path.

 Tombstone Shadow, stretching across my path.

 Ev'rytime I get some good news, ooh

 There's a shadow on my back.

Saw the gypsy man, 'way down in San Berdoo.

 Said, I saw the gypsy man, 'way down in San Berdoo.

 Five dollars on the table, ooh

 Keep me 'way from my tomb. Oh! Oh!

Said I got thirteen months of bad luck,

Bound to be some pain.

Don't you do no trav'ling,

Fly in no machines.

 Tombstone Shadow, stretching across my path.

 Ev'rytime I get some good news, ooh

 There's a shadow on my back.

The man gave me a luck charm, Cost five dollars more,

 Said, "Put some on your pillow, and put some on your door."

 He said, "Take a long vacation, ooh

 For thirteen months or more." Oh, Lord!

Tombstone Shadow, stretching across my path.

 Tombstone Shadow, stretching across my path.

 Ev'rytime I get some good news, ooh

 There's a shadow on my back.

Oh, oh, Lord!

[Oh Lord]