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