Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Let's kick off May with an afternoon of songs and stories with Mary and Jaimee.
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Let's kick off May with an afternoon of songs and stories with Mary and Jaimee.
Support the stream:
Venmo: @marygauthiersongs
Paypal.me/marygauthiersongs
Visit the Merch Table
• Enter code SUNDAYS10 at checkout to receive 10% off your purchase at marygauthier.com/store
• Enter code SPRING at checkout to receive 15% off your purhcase at jaimeeharris.com/store
![Mary Gauthier - Mama Louisiana [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8407ckG7Hvc/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - Mama Louisiana [Audio]
Mama Louisiana by Mary Gauthier
Album: Dixie Kitchen (1996)
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LYRICS
The wink in a Cajuns Eye a cast iron pot full of jambalaya
The whistle of the Delta Queen sugar cane young and green
The bayou water moves so slow like the people there, there’s no rush, no
Mardi Gras Indians, Dixie Beer, sugar mills and a Fais Do Do
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Highway 1 to Thibodaux, the Sunshine Bridge, spicy gumbo
Sitting in the Quarter sipping Hurricanes avoiding the flash folds and summer rains
Edwin Edwards, Huey Long Jimmy Swaggart and drinking songs
Louisiana’s children come and go but the mighty Mississippi just flows
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
I can’t wait to get back home and see my family
What matters now are the people in my heart
I dream of that southern road and my mama’s laughter
I been gone too long, it’s tearing me apart
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home
Mama Louisiana is calling me home")
![Rifles & Rosary Beads - Mary Gauthier [Short Film]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/94NobmTAbtY/mqdefault.jpg "Rifles & Rosary Beads - Mary Gauthier [Short Film]
Directed by Neilson Hubbard and Joshua Britt (2017). Rifles & Rosary Beads is a short film about the power and beauty of turning trauma into art. Based on Mary Gauthiers new album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, the short documentary tells the story of one professional songwriters experience co-writing with Veterans and their families through the SongwritingWith:Soldiers program. Each song is a glimpse inside the heart and soul of a Veteran (or their spouse). The service members words and stories bring listeners deep into the harrowing effects of war. Written honestly from a vulnerable place, songs like these can change a wounded persons life by making beauty out of the beast. The process of co-writing them is deeply therapeutic for both the Veteran and the songwriter, but it’s not therapy. It is the making of art.
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![Mary Gauthier - I Drink [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/94r06pXO4TY/mqdefault.jpg "Mary Gauthier - I Drink [Audio]
I Drink by Mary Gauthier
Written by Mary Gauthier and Crit Harmon
Album: Drag Queens In Limousines (1999)
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LYRICS
He’d get home at 5:30, fix his drink,
And sit down in his chair,
Pick a fight with mama,
Complain about us kids getting in his hair.
At night he’d sit alone and smoke
I’d see his frown behind his lighter’s flame
Now that same frown’s in my mirror
I got my daddy’s blood inside my veins
Fish swim birds fly
Daddies yell mamas cry
Old men sit and think
I drink
Chicken TV dinner 6 minutes on defrost, 3 on high
A beer to wash it down with
Then another, a little whiskey on the side it’s not so bad alone here
Don’t bother me that every night’s the same
I don’t need another lover hanging round, trying to make me change
Fish swim birds fly
Lovers leave by and by
Old men sit and think
I drink
I know what I am
But I don’t give a damn
Fish swim birds fly
Daddies yell mama’s cry
Old men sit and think
I drink")
