Mary Gauthier
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."
Her surname is pronounced "go-chay."
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Mary Gauthier Lyrics
A Different Kind of Gone There's knots in your stomach Tightness in my throat half …
About Time I'll think about the joy inside your laughter I'll think abo…
After You're Gone You're crying 'cause I'm not crying You're crying while I si…
Amsterdam Bicycle bells on Rembrandt Street, Spanish shoes on a strang…
Another Day Borrowed I shook my fist at my father's rage I cursed my…
Before You Leave Tell me that you love me one more time Before you…
Between The Daylight And The Dark Well, the grasses are swaying, sun's going down Music is pla…
Blood is Blood Clouds are spreading like bruises on the evening sky I walk…
Camelot Motel He's lying on the double bed acting self-assured In his T-sh…
Can't Find The Way Mary Gauthier This is not my street This is not my house …
Christmas In Paradise Davey stole a Christmas tree from K-Mart last night Red ribb…
Coda Foundling, a foundling Looking for home Wanders through da…
Dark Enough to See the Stars At the bottom of my tears, on the backside of…
Different Kind of Gone There's knots in your stomach Tightness in my throat half th…
Drag Queens In Limousines I hated high school, I prayed it would end The jocks…
Drop In A Bucket Happy anniversary, baby It's been a year now since you moved…
Empty Spaces Silly me, what was I thinking I could've sworn you still…
Evangeline She said, "You are not my lover" So don't look at…
Fall Apart World Sunrise at low tide, songbirds on a high wire Full moon…
Falling Out Of Love It's a cheap hotel, the heat pipes hiss The bathroom's down…
For Rose (Jonathan Pointer) A warm wind blows Across my windowsill t…
Goddamn HIV My name is Michael Joe Alexandre I've been a queer since…
Good-Bye (Mary Gauthier) Born a bastard child in New Orleans To a wo…
How Could You Be Gone I keep staring at the clock stumbling round the house…
I Ain't Leaving Broken on the inside, that's what I used to say Then…
I Drink He'd get home at 5:30 Fix his drink, sit down in…
It Ain't The Wind It's The Rain There's a big storm a coming, of this I've no…
Jackie's Train There's a tiny village with its landscape painted green A fi…
Just Say She's A Rhymer When they ask about us, as friends always do Remember the…
Karla Faye A little girl lost, her world full of pain He said…
Last Of The Hobo Kings Mary Gauthier Steam Train Maury died last night His wife …
Lifetime I called my mama yesterday To wish her happy birthday She sa…
Long Way To Fall Mary Gauthier I felt the flames on my face when I found…
Lucky Stars You throw me that look again We both know what it…
Mama Here Mama Gone Basinets and babies St. Vincent's Infants Home Orphaned in l…
Mercy Now My father could use a little mercy now The fruits of…
Merry Go Round From the painful rays of daybreak Ripping darkness out your …
Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars Our Lady of the Shooting Stars was that you last…
Please Four nights alone in Amsterdam and I missed you every…
Prayer Without Words Packing vagabond visions and a dream drenched hunger for a…
Same Road My silence betrays me Lets the demons take a hold The truth…
Sideshow People stare and then they walk away But there's always a…
Slip of the Tongue Honey sit down I've got something to say Last night I…
Snakebit The children are crying, they never got their supper Where w…
Soft Place To Land Kristen Hall/Mary Gauthier Look at me, on the high wire A…
Sugar Cane Mama said, she don't give a damn what those people…
Sweet Words I don't trust my eyes anymore They don't know what they're…
Thank God for You Crescent City disappearing in the rear-view mirror Just like…
Thanksgiving We stood in a long line waitin' for the door…
The Foundling A baby A FOUNDLING Unwanted LOOKING Unloved and unblesse…
The Ledge Under water, under the well Under glass, under a ground swel…
The Meadow Highway 90 westbound in the falling dark Rolling past cornfi…
The Orphan King My mama had held me one time then kissed me…
The Sun Fades The Color Of Everything We lie here and we lie here Awaiting the return Of the…
Till I See You Again May eternity hold you in the hollow of her hand May…
Truckers and Troubadours Truckers and troubadours, black coffee and metaphors Steerin…
Walk In the Water You tell me you're sorry THE COLD And it lands like a…
Walk Through The Fire In the darkness it finds me The terrible fire It don't matte…
Wheel Inside The Wheel The parade of souls is marching across the sky Their heat…
Where Are You Now Late September, spiders spinning harvest moon sky of blue I…
Worthy It took a mighty blow to crack me to the…
Your Sister Cried Well, I stared out of the windshield into the rain…