Mary Gauthier (born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American folk singer/songwriter. At age 15, she ran away from home and stole her parents' car, and spent the next several years in detox, halfway houses, and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in jail. These experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on (particularly her song "Drag Queens in Limousines"). Later on, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, but after five years there, dropped out due to drug problems and moved to Boston. After working waitress jobs and eventually being promoted to manager of the restaurant where she worked, financial backers paid her way to attend the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and she opened a Cajun restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, "Dixie Kitchen" (also the title of her first album).
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Evangeline Lyrics

Mary Gauthier

She said, " You are not my lover,
So don't look at me that way.
Just cause I let you touch me,
Don't mean I'll let you stay."
She said, "Lovers try to change me,
the minute I care'
but baby when I'm dancing
I dance on air, I dance on air.

And all the other dancers,
Fade in smoke and blue,
And money comes from heaven.
God's alive baby,
Yea, he comes through.

CHORUS Evangeline Evangeline

She moves, I can't stop watching,
Yea, the dirty stage, it's her home.
And on my skin her touch lingers,
And it's worse
than being alone, being alone.

And all the other dancers,
Fade in smoke and blue,
And my money buys me time here
Where the beer lights and the neon nights
Make a shadow out of you

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Evangeline Evangeline

She floats out of the spotlights
She will not look my way
I'm gonna sit here waiting.
Till the night
Turns to day.

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