Mary Gauthier 'I Drink'

Mary Gauthier performing "I Drink" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 3.02.2011

[foxeye]

Tania Elizabeth on the fiddle, and stomp boards and rattle !- they were just here in Sisters this month. I got a chance to talk to Mary. What a deep soul! She got standing ovations the two times I saw her.

[TexasRuby]

Love the lyrics to this, proper storytelling through music, Brilliant.

[thomaslabelle]

I saw Mary at the Winnipeg Folk Festival many years back and she did this song several times on various stages. It just killed me every time. Great song, Ms. Gauthier.

[MrMikeX]

Why have I never heard this incredible artist???

[NashvilleEar]

Excellent Lyrics!! Love the song ladies... the violin added so much to the mood. Great Job!

[zimmyvanzandt]

Great song Mary. My favorite on the album. I love to play this on my guitar. Pat x

[etet]

Just love it. What a talent. Hope to see her perform live one day.

[garyturner]

Such a creative arrangement. Tania, you keep expressing. Love it.

[cashcoh]

I would like so much to hear her in concert in Paris !!!

[noraodwyer]

took me a long time to look to look at a song that had heart mary gauthier does feelings and plays her own guitar i love the song about

[alvaroibanez]

He'd get home at 5:30
Fix his drink, sit down in his chair
Pick a fight with mama
Complain about us kids getting in his hair
At night he'd sit 'lone 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
Beer to wash it down with then another
A little whiskey on the side
It's not so bad alone here
It 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, mamas cry
Old men sit and think
I drink

[noraodwyer]

brillant mary said it in one a very complex theme

[waitingaroundtodiesb]

we in wa2d both relate.
great song.

[chrissawyer]

it's what we do .... until we don't.

[timfranczyk]

Beautiful, sad song. Somehow, some artists succeed in spite of their miserable, hard drinkin fathers....elvis, cash, gauthier....