Evangeline - The Del McCoury Band

Across the Mississippii line
Somewhere south of Palestine
A river filled with rusty rain whistle on the midnight train
Beats into the misty air moving on to who knows where
Pushing timbers, stealing stone
Destination anywhere, destiny unknown

Evangeline was her name
Hot cajun blood ran through her veins
Flashing eyes as black as coal burned into my very soul
She told and teased and hypnotized promises and homemade lies
One day with the break of dawn, I woke up in a empty bed
Found that she was gone
I hear her laughing in the rain
Even the wind, that calls her name
With all the loneliness and pain she left behind
Let the darkness find its place
Let the shadows hide my face
So the moon won’t see me crying
Evangeline

I’m walking down this railroad track
Looking forward, looking back
One sweet kiss is haunting me, torturing my memory
Visions that I can’t resist, vanish like the morning mist
Country line and city street
Just ahead, just behind, just beyond my reach

I hear her laughing in the rain
Even the wind, that calls her name
With all the loneliness and pain she left behind
Let the darkness find its place
Let the shadows hide my face
So the moon won’t see me crying
Evangeline


I hear her laughing in the rain
Even the wind, that calls her name
With all the loneliness and pain
Evangeline