Lyrics:

Tombstone shadow,
stretchin' across my path.
Tombstone shadow,
stretchin' across my path.
Ev'ry time 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'lin',
Fly in no machines.
Tombstone shadow,
stretchin' across my path.
Ev'ry time I get some good news,
Ooh, There's a shadow on my back.
Oh...


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,
stretchin' across my path.
Tombstone shadow,
stretchin' across my path.
Ev'ry time I get some good news,
Ooh, There's a shadow on my back.

Oh, oh, Lord!
Oh, Lord! ...