This is an excellent song that just didn't get enough airplay. Can anybody
remember a girl like this. It draws an instant image in my mind.
Evangeline
Chad Brock
transcribed by Dave Dube Sr.
written by Bob McDill and Carson Chamberlain
INTRO A E E A
AE
She's been here workin all summer long
EA
Pumping gas for the boats at the Copely Block
AE
She's so brown from being in the sun all day
E7
Boys from town hang around her paPA's place
Chorus
AE
Hey, you can see her at the boat dock
A
Walkin up the pier in her flip flops
E
Tying up lines to her tank top
A
Dipping for bait in the bait shop
DA
Everyboy around would like to say that girl's mine
E
Summer's gonna end I know it
E
Oh were gonna miss you so
EA
Wish you didn't have to go ..Evangeline
Verse2
AE
Won't be long, she'll being going back to school
A
Going home, all the way to Baton Rouge
E
Her paPa, says he'll get along the best he can
E7
And all the boys will be so brokenhearted again
Till the summer again
Repeat Chorus
E A?
Wish you didn't have to go Evangeline
EADGBE
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*Breaks for leads are same as intro
*rythym is a cajun style playing bass notes than high notes in pairs of
two in alternating fashion
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records