Filth & Fire
Mary Gauthier (born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1962) is an American count… Read Full Bio ↴Mary Gauthier (born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1962) is an American country and folk singer/songwriter. Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Mary was adopted. 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). She wrote her first song at age 35. After the release of her first album, she sold her share in the restaurant to finance her second album, Drag Queens in Limousines. Gauthier is an out lesbian and two of the songs on her first album, "Goddamn HIV" and "Skeleton Town", dealt with AIDS.

Her surname is pronounced "go-chay."
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Filth & Fire
Mary Gauthier Lyrics


After You're Gone You're crying 'cause I'm not crying You're crying while I si…
Camelot Motel He's lying on the double bed acting self-assured In his T-sh…
Christmas In Paradise Davey stole a Christmas tree from K-Mart last night Red ribb…
For Rose (Jonathan Pointer) A warm wind blows Across my windowsill t…
Goodbye (Mary Gauthier) Born a bastard child in New Orleans To a wo…
Long Way To Fall Mary Gauthier I felt the flames on my face when I found…
Merry Go Round From the painful rays of daybreak Ripping darkness out your …
Sugar Cane Mama said, she don't give a damn what those people…
The Ledge Under water, under the well Under glass, under a ground swel…
The Sun Fades The Color Of Everything We lie here and we lie here Awaiting the return Of the…
Walk Through The Fire In the darkness it finds me The terrible fire It don't matte…


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