Ain't no money in the jail
If it hadn't have been for Evangeline
I'd be hanging around there still
Stuck down in the harlot, in that chicken
With no love to comfort me
Now I ain't never goin' back
Oh, Evangeline, Evangeline
The prettiest girl I ever seen
She fell on me just like a dream
Don't you know I love her?
Talkin' bout my Evangeline
Well I left there in a hurry
I left that one horse town
Packed my things in the middle of the night,
as the snow was falling down.
Took the train to Charleston,
Left the mountains for the ocean,
where the grass is growing green.
the prettiest girl I've ever seen
She fell on me just like a dream
Don't you know I love her?
I'm talkin' bout my Vangeline
Whoa, it's winter up on the mountain,
If it hadn't been for that woman
I'd be hangin' round there still
Oh, Evangeline, Evangeline
Prettiest girl I ever seen
She's got on me just like a dream
Don't you know I love her?
Talkin' about my Evangeline
That's what you call a thing