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Evangeline

from BORDER RADIO by Todd Hearon

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lyrics

EVANGELINE

Evangeline you don’t come ’round here anymore
Your smile’s gotten strange to me
All your poetry was an open door in the forest floor
To insanity

Wanna do right by your mama, by your papa too
By their big Impala, 1962
Now come on Evie, grab your Chevy, let’s see what she can do
We’ll go holy rollin’ for a while

Evangeline with the far-off name and the wall-eye trained
On eternity
In your cut-off jeans you’re as long and lean as the poets’ dream
Of immortality
Wanna climb into your bearskin, wanna be born again
Eat peyote in the desert with your medicine man
Now come on Evie, grab your Chevy, let’s take her for a spin
We’ll go holy rollin’ for a while

Holy rolling
Holy rolling
Holy rolling
Going out in style
Turning those tricks on the Miracle Mile

Evangeline you’re a junkyard queen and a saint’s wet dream
Of criminality
All your sweet-sixteen and your submachine, they’re reminding me
All is vanity
Save a spot for your grandma, all your Oklahoma kin
Save a spot for the preacherman with his pocketful of gin
Come on Evie, grab the Chevy, let’s pile the whole clan in
We’ll go holy rollin’ for a while

Holy rolling
Holy rolling
Holy rolling
In and out of time
Turning that holy water into gas-o-line

Holy rolling
Holy rolling
Holy rolling
Going out in style
Turning those tricks on the Miracle Mile

You just smile, pretty baby
You just smile like you’re crazy
You just smile and I’ll be happy for a while
Turning those tricks on the Miracle Mile

You’d just smile, pretty baby
You’d just smile like you’re crazy
You’d just smile and I’d be happy for a while
Turning those tricks on the Miracle Mile

But Evangeline you don’t come round here anymore

credits

from BORDER RADIO, released August 20, 2021
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Todd Hearon
Vocal Harmonies: Melissa Foley, Kevin Kidd
Harmonica: Stu Barer
Hammond Organ: Chris Plante
Bass: Pete Iannitto
Drums: Michael Jerome Moore

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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