Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"Soldiering On," written by Mary Gauthier and Jennifer Marino.
New Album, "Rifles & Rosary Beads," Available Now at www.marygauthier.com.
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I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
You don’t fight for yourself
You fight for the ones by your side
They do the same for you
And to live you must be willing to die
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
Suck it up shut it down it don’t matter how you feel
Mission first, just drive on, a soldiers a cog inside a wheel
Up or down, all for one, the closest family I have known
Soldiers soldiering on
I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home I’m a soldier, soldiering on
I’m a soldier, soldiering on
"Soldiering On," written by Mary Gauthier and Jennifer Marino.
New Album, "Rifles & Rosary Beads," Available Now at www.marygauthier.com.
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I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
You don’t fight for yourself
You fight for the ones by your side
They do the same for you
And to live you must be willing to die
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
Suck it up shut it down it don’t matter how you feel
Mission first, just drive on, a soldiers a cog inside a wheel
Up or down, all for one, the closest family I have known
Soldiers soldiering on
I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home I’m a soldier, soldiering on
I’m a soldier, soldiering on
![Mary Gauthier - Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XVmMS_xEqi0/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars [Audio]
Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars by Mary Gauthier
Album: Drag Queens In Limousines (1999)
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Our lady of the shooting stars was that you last night?
Did we dance a whispered waltz did I hold you in my sight?
When morning came with open arms, she lifted you from me,
The sunlight burned my eyes away and now I cannot see
Our lady of the shooting stars as I face the early light
All that I can think of now is joining you in flight
But I have followed gypsys, girl and lost my way back home
Ive held the phoenix to my chest and ended up alone.
If I move to you, will you move to me?
If I move to you, will you move to me?
Our lady of the shooting stars, teach me how to know
I want to feel my thoughts go dark
And rest inside your flow.
Ill awaken without fear
And breathe the cool clean air,
With your words upon my lips
Your will becomes my prayer
If I move to you, will you move to me?
If I move to you, will you move to me?
Our lady of the shooting stars look what you have done
Youve led me to the waters edge running from sun.
Are you in the briny mist, do seagulls scream your name?
Their wings suspended by your love or do I reach for you in vain?
If I move to you, will you move to me?
If I move to you, will you move to me?")
![Mary Gauthier - Sugar Cane (Live at Blue Rock) [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xduwn_KSnKU/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - Sugar Cane (Live at Blue Rock) [Audio]
Mary Gauthier performs Sugar Cane live at Blue Rock.
Written by Mary Gauthier and Catie Curtis
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Mama said she don’t give a damn what those people say
Cane smoke can’t be good for you day after day
Every year at harvest time when the black smoke filled the sky
She’d pick me up and take me home and make me stay inside
From Thibodaux to Raceland there’s fire in the fields
All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville
Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain
A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane
Christmas on the bayou, midnight come and gone
Driving past the sugar mill and all the lights are on
The parking lot is full of trucks I can see the furnace glow
Everybody’s working overtime, it’s a good job, even though
From Thibodaux to Raceland there’s fire in the fields
All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville
Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain
A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane
First came the sugar cane, then came Thibodaux
Cane sugar built this town, cane sugar paved these roads
They burn the leaves to harvest cash, money for the company
Money makes the world go round, money, money, money
From Thibodaux to Raceland there’s fire in the fields
All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville
Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain
A dirty dark at daybreak burning, burning
The soot and ash are falling like a dark and deadly snow
The air is full of poison to the Gulf of Mexico
Dirty air, dirty laundry dirty money dirty rain
A dirty deal with the devil, burning the sugar cane")
![Mary Gauthier - When A Woman Goes Cold [Lyric Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZbE_NyyRDQs/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - When A Woman Goes Cold [Lyric Video]
When A Woman Goes Cold by Mary Gauthier and Gretchen Peters)
Album: Trouble and Love (2014)
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Songwriters: Mary Gauthier and Gretchen Peters.
Video created by Kristen Hall / Write Away Films
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She didn’t get mad, she didn’t even cry
She lit a cigarette and said goodbye
I must a’ missed a sign, I missed a turn somewhere
I looked in her eyes, I saw a stranger there
It’s the way she’s made it’s a natural fact
Once she’s really gone, she can’t come back
Ain’t no wedding dress ain’t no band of gold
Gonna keep her there, when a woman goes cold
You’re no longer her concern
Scorched earth cannot burn
It’s out of your control when a woman goes cold
She won’t give an inch she won’t be convinced
Ain’t no mercy in her soul when a woman goes cold
I wish she’d scream and shout, I wish she’d slam a door
I wish she’d curse my name like she’s done before
But she looks through me like I’m not there
And I’m dying here, and she just don’t care
You’re no longer her concern
Scorched earth cannot burn
It’s out of your control when a woman goes cold
She won’t give an inch she won’t be convinced
Ain’t no mercy in her soul when a woman goes cold
When a woman goes cold, when a woman goes cold
When a woman goes cold when a woman goes cold")
