On the Bayou

Sitting on the banks of the Bayou Têche
With grass stains on my party dress
I’ve been out all night, painting the town
Lost in the shuffle of the weekend crowd
But that spell wears off with the fading moon
Morning will be breaking soon on the bayou

You brought me here on a warm June night
And in the **** of the stars and the fireflies
We spent hours I could never forget
So now instead of home, sleeping in my bed
I’m sitting in the grass in the morning dew
Wishing I was here with you
On the bayou, oh, on the bayou

Oh Evangeline, tell me what you know
I’m sitting underneath that old live oak
Wondering if the things they say are true

And if that star up in the sky
Really is a kindly light
I pray that it will shine down on me too
And guide me on my way back to you

If I’d known then what I know now
I would have turned the car around
And told you all the thoughts that were in my head
Freed the ghosts of my old regrets
And maybe right now, I’d be by your side
Instead of sitting here with my foolish pride
On the bayou, oh, on the bayou

Oh Evangeline, tell me what you know
I’m sitting underneath that old live oak
Wondering if the things they say are true

And if that star up in the sky
Really is a kindly light
I pray that it will shine down on me too
And guide me on my way back to you

Where the crickets and the owls and the bullfrogs sing
In the silhouette of the cypress trees
Not a worry in the world weighing on their minds
Just singing their songs, living their lives
And if life was so simple for people too
I wouldn’t be sitting here missing you
On the bayou, on the bayou

Oh Evangeline, tell me what you know
I’m sitting underneath that old live oak
Wondering if the things they say are true

And if that star up in the sky
Really is a kindly light,
I pray that it will shine down on me too
And guide me on my way back to you