Lyr Req: Drag Queens in Limousines (Mary Gauthier)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drag Queens in Limosines
From: Mickey191
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 05:42 PM

Thank you Peace & for that alert-Great. Sorry you have horse hairs up your nostrils- Mike, thank you kindly for the personal info. on Mary. Do you have an opinion on her singing style & writing? I never play the car radio- most of it drives me nuts. Some jerk broke my CD player. So this station was a revelation- Serendipity gave Mary a new fan. Happy Holidays!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drag Queens in Limosines
From: open mike
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 05:24 PM

http://www.marygauthier.com/
she is from the south (new orleans?)
and has had a restaurant (in boston)
called Dixie Kitchen.
now that her music career is taking off,
she may not have time to manage the cafe'

her first "album",
"Dixie Kitchen," (named after her award-winning restaurant in Boston), ... Although Mary now resides in New England, her music traditions come from down on the bayou in Louisianna. Riding that line of not-quite-folk/not-quite-country, more of a "smart country" stlye along the lines of Steve Earle and John Prine

also categorizes as country-fried-folk

more lyrics here--http://www.marygauthier.com/lyrics.html
no horse feathers there.

Subject: Lyr Add: DRAG QUEENS IN LIMOUSINES (Mary Gauthier)
From: Peace
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:24 PM

DRAG QUEENS IN LIMOUSINES
Mary Gauthier

I hated high school. I prayed it would end.
The jocks and their girls, it was their world. I didn't fit in.
Mama said, "Baby, it's the best school that money can buy.
Hold your head up. Be strong. C'mon, Mary, try."

I stole mama's 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.

CHORUS: Drag queens in limousines,
Nuns in blue jeans,
Dreamers with big dreams,
All took me in.

Charlie 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. They said, "Don't y'all come back here again." CHORUS

My dad went to college, and he worked for the state.
He never quit nothing and 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 don't understand.

Sometimes you got do what you gotta do,
And hope 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 flies,
Writers with dark eyes,
Drunks that philosophize,
These are my friends.



The site I got lyrics from has more pop-ups than a horse has hairs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drag Queens in Limosines
From: Peace
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:21 PM

More about her here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drag Queens in Limosines
From: Peace
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:19 PM

It's done by Mary Gauthier.

Subject: Lyr Req: Drag Queens in Limosines
From: Mickey191
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:10 PM

Not in Digi Trad. I heard a bit of song on car radio which was fascinating because of the words,the feel, the singer-everything had me in a "Must Know More Mood." The DJ said the singer/composer Mary Go Shay (Yup-that's the name) has yet to become well known. Missed some of the words-about a girl accepted by DQ & Nuns in Blue Jeans. I'm nuts about the singer and the Blusey, heart wrenching vocal. Who can enlighten me? Mickey 191