Evangeline 1919

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Jun 2004

There is a romance a thousand times told,
Longfellow's love story old,
she of the snowlands,
Queen of the Lowlands,
He was a yeoman bold,
And when at last their dream had past
here's how the story's told.

Sweet Evangeline of old Acadie
I can hear your voice from over the sea,
while the evening bells
are tolling sweet and low,
love scenes we all know
softly come and go.
There's the blacksmith
'neath the old chestnut tree,
and the children playing so peacefully,
where the ocean and the sky must part,
someone's watching with a broken heart,
'twas a dream of love that never could be,
in Acadie.

Sweet Evangeline of old Acadie
I can hear your voice from over the sea,
while the evening bells
are tolling sweet and low,
love scenes we all know
softly come and go.
There's the blacksmith
'neath the old chestnut tree,
and the children playing so peacefully,
where the ocean and the sky must part,
someone's watching with a broken heart,
'twas a dream of love that never could be,
in Acadie.

Sweet are the mem'ries
yet sweeter the dreams,
part of my life so it seems,
when I am lonely,
one love song only,
flows like the woodland stream,
Evangeline of Acadie
you live in all my dreams.

Sweet Evangeline of old Acadie
I can hear your voice from over the sea,
while the evening bells
are tolling sweet and low,
love scenes we all know
softly come and go.
There's the blacksmith
'neath the old chestnut tree,
and the children playing so peacefully,
where the ocean and the sky must part,
someone's watching with a broken heart,
'twas a dream of love that never could be,
in Acadie.

Sweet Evangeline of old Acadie
I can hear your voice from over the sea,
while the evening bells
are tolling sweet and low,
love scenes we all know
softly come and go.
There's the blacksmith
'neath the old chestnut tree,
and the children playing so peacefully,
where the ocean and the sky must part,
someone's watching with a broken heart,
'twas a dream of love that never could be,
in Acadie.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Evangeline 1919
Lyrics by Joe McCarthy
Music by Fred Fisher
© MCMXIX by McCarthy & Fisher Inc. N.Y.C.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 26 June 2004 at 00.04
in association with Doug Grierson
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