Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join us in welcoming Anana Kaye and Irakli Gabriel to the Sundays with Mary show. We met at the 2020 Folk Alliance after the unexpected passing of our mutual friend David Olney. I'm in awe of their talent and generosity.
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Join us in welcoming Anana Kaye and Irakli Gabriel to the Sundays with Mary show. We met at the 2020 Folk Alliance after the unexpected passing of our mutual friend David Olney. I'm in awe of their talent and generosity.
Venmo: @marygauthiersongs
Paypal.me/marygauthiersongs
![Mary Gauthier - Skeleton Town [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wJ-321m_8A8/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - Skeleton Town [Audio]
Skeleton Town by Mary Gauthier
Album: Dixie Kitchen (1996)
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Joey got sick in ’82
Back there wasn’t much the doctors could do
They put him in the General I.C.U.
And the whispering started cause some people knew
Joey’s got the sickness that’s got no cure
They put warning signs on Joey’s door
Half of the staff on Joey’s floor said
I ain’t going in that room no more
Skeleton town, it’s a skeleton town
Shadows keep moving when the sun goes down
There’s plenty of ways to say good-bye
In the darkness shadow multiply
In skeleton Town
Joey’s daddy got angry and started to yell
Told the nurses they could all go straight to hell
Put his fists on the counter, looked ‘em in the eye
He said, “My son deserves better and he started to cry.”
Joeys mama walked up and took his daddy’s hand
She said, “Honey lets talk him back home again.”
Skeleton town, it’s a skeleton town
Shadows keep moving when the sun goes down
There’s plenty of ways to say good-bye
In the darkness shadow multiply
In skeleton Town
Joey’s mama sat with him every day
With her rosary beads in her hands she’d pray
The doctor looked down he had nothing to say
He’d never seen a sickness do a man this way
The neighbors started talking then the talking broke down
Someone shouted lets run their asses out of town")
![Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens In Limousines [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xFOj5elzNKw/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens In Limousines [Audio]
Drag Queens In Limousines by Mary Gauthier
Written by Mary Gauthier and Crit Harmon
Album: Drag Queens In Limousines (1999)
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I hated high school, I prayed it would end
The jocks and their girls, it was their world, I didnt fit in
Mama said, Baby, its the best school that money can buy,
Hold your head up, be strong, cmon Mary, try.
I stole mamas car on a Sunday and left home for good
Moved in with my friends in the city, in a bad neighborhood
Charles was a dancer, he loved the ballet
And Kimmy sold pot and read Kerouac and Hemingway
Drag Queens in Limousines nuns in blue jeans
Dreamers with big dreams all took me in
Charly and I flipped burgers to cover the rent
And Bourbons at Happy hour for .35 cents
One day before work we got drunk and danced in the rain
They fired us both, said, Dont y’all come back here again.
CHORUS
My daddy went to college, and he worked for the state
He never quit nothing he wanted me to graduate
My brother and sister both play in the marching band
They tell me they miss me, but I know they dont understand.
Sometimes you got do, what you gotta do
And pray that the people you love, will catch up with you.
Yea drag queens in limousines nuns in blue jeans
Dreamers with big dreams poets and AWOL marines
Actors and bar fly’s writers with dark eyes
Drunks that philosophize these are my friends")
![Mary Gauthier - World Unkind [Acoustic]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xNeKAyxhqFk/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - World Unkind [Acoustic]
Written by Mary Gauthier and Ben Glover
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![Mary Gauthier - Karla Faye [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yUPC5F2Sqm4/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - Karla Faye [Audio]
Karla Faye by Mary Gauthier
Written by Mary Gauthier and Crit Harmon
Album: Drag Queens In Limousines (1999)
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LYRICS
A little girl lost her world full of pain
He said it feels good she gave him her vein
The dope made her numb and numb felt like free
Until she came down, down, down to a new misery
A junkie a whore living for the next high.
Shed lie cheat and steal she forgot how to cry
Wide awake for two weeks shooting heroin then speed
When she killed in cold, cold blood all she felt was her need
Its an eye for an eye now youre gonna die
A tooth for a tooth its your moment of truth.
Theres no mercy here your stay is denied
Go on and pray, pray, pray you find Mercy in the sky
Alone in her cell no dope in her veins
The killer had become the little girl lost again
She fell to her knees she prayed she would die
On the cold cement floor she finally cried
And love came like the wind love whispered her name.
Love reached through and held her love lifted her pain.
15 years on death row her faith deeper each day
Her last words were I love you all
Good-bye, Karla Faye
Now its an eye for an eye, youre gonna die
A tooth for a tooth its your moment of truth
Theres no mercy here your stay is denied
You better pray, pray, pray you find Mercy in the sky")
![Mary Gauthier - How You Learn To Live Alone [Lyric Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yXU69P6neJI/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - How You Learn To Live Alone [Lyric Video]
How You Learn To Live Alone by Mary Gauthier and Gretchen Peters
Album: Trouble and Love (2014)
From Mary Gauthiers 2014 album Trouble and Love.
Songwriters: Mary Gauthier and Gretchen Peters.
Background Vocals: Darrell Scott, Beth Nielsen Chapman, The McCrary Sisters
Electric Guitar Solo - Special thanks to Duane Eddy the, Legendary Master of Twang.
Video created by Kristen Hall / Write Away Films
This song was sung on TVs Nashville by Jonathan Jackson, and features Duane Eddy on guitar. It was recorded in Hendersonville, TN, at Ricky Skaggs studio.
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LYRICS
First you fall then you fly
And you believe that you belong up in the sky
Flap your arms, as you run
Every revolution brings you closer to the sun
You fall asleep in motion in uncharted hemispheres
You wake up with the stars falling down around your ears
When they hit the ground they’re nothing but stones
That’s how you learn to live alone
That’s how you learn to live alone
Bit by bit, you slip away
You lose yourself in pieces n the things that you don’t say
You’re not here, but you’re still there
Sun goes up, the sun goes down you’re not sure you care
You live inside the false till you don’t recognize the true
People send you pictures and you can’t believe it’s you
It’s been years since your house has felt like home
That’s how you learn to live alone
That’s how you learn to live alone
It don’t feel right, but it’s not wrong
It’s just hard to start again this far along
Brick by brick, the letting go
As you walk away from everything you know
You release resistance lean into the wind
Till the roof begins to crumble, the rain comes pouring in
You sit there in the rubble till the rubble feels like home
That’s how you learn to live alone
That’s how you learn to live alone")
