G WHEN the bayous haunted by Evangeline In the pre-dawn hours close to Halloween C There’s a mist that’s hanging right in between G The Spanish moss & the cypress TREES D G And the memory of the life that’s gone wrong D C’est plus que possible D7 G Tu le sais Acadienne G I’m a driver alone in my Cadillac In a white chair rug you’ll be thinking back C TO be running wild as a child OF NINE G And the snakes and ‘gators they was friends of mine D G I’ll forever be un petit Acadien D C’est plus que possible D7 G Tu le sais Acadienne Cmajor2 And MY father never found peace enough G To cure his permanent wanderlust Cmajor2 Every time we’d get settled down D We’d wake up heading for another town G From the Louisiana to the Florida That’s a be my home to a (un-im-up ???) C That’s a simple people don’t complicate G And you hear the future in the hands of fate D G And the life you get is the life that I want D C’est plus que possible D7 G Tu le sais Acadienne Cmajor2 And my father never found peace enough G To cure his permanent wanderlust Cmajor2 Every time we’d get settled down D D7 We’d wake up heading for another town Gamjor Hear me boy cos your love is why You got two three words you gonna be alright C And there’s powerful forces out up the swamp G It’ll be forever, make it permanent D G And the life you get is the life that I want D C’est plus que possible D7 Gamjor Tu le sais Acadienne D C’est plus que possible D7 G Tu le sais Acadienne