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

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 thirty-five 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.»

Drag queens in limousines

Nuns in blue jeans

Dreamers with big dreams

All took me in

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 pray that the people you love, will catch up with you

Yeah drag queens in limousines

Nuns in blue jeans

Dreamers with big dreams

Poets and AWOL marines

Actors and barflies

Writers with dark eyes

Drunks that philosophize

These are my friends