Mary Chapin Carpenter - Mrs. Hemingway Lyrics

Tedious tosh but the piano sounds great.

Today Notre Dame Cathedral burned...4/15/19 a loss for Paris and the world...Paris Strong

Great storytelling...voice perfect, as always

The book about Hemingway's first wife: THE PARIS WIFE is heartbreaking , and memorable as hell. He dumps her, remarries...Lives move on. Before he dies( suicide) :KNEW "I always loved you, all my life." The writing was also Ego. He lost his one true love. SAD. I still loved the scenes, the bizarre life, HER love....... thrown away.....

A very awesome song that slipped though the crack's and only the lucky are able to see it's complexion and compassionate,of the lyric's.peace to all.rebcargo

Mary Chapin Carpenter should a musical out of this!

Lovely heart wrenching song. Thank you for sharing. Peace

This song slays me every time . . . .

Wow. Thank you to everyone who made this video possible. What a Gift. In every sense of the word.

Beautiful keyboard / piano, from Matt Rollings.

Thanks for your music, Mary !!!   Preciosa melodía, elegante y tu VOZ profunda, cálida..... excepcional..................WHEN WILL YOU COME TO PLAY IN MADRID  SPAIN ???

What a wonderful Song! Mary is Amazing!

This recording of the song is so incredible because of the pianist - he adds so much expression to the song
She is lucky to have this guy

jay smith It’s interesting because I was feeling his playing wasn’t that great! Interesting how two people can hear the exact same performance but feel different about it.

Could I know who is the pianist?

Ben E I appreciate your kindness. Thanks a lot for your info 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Pete Matt Rollings is a Nashville legend, but each to his own. Before you definitively make that judgement, try listening to more of his work.

Keith Donnelly no one made a definitive judgement. Simply stated my opinion on his playing in this particular piece. He might be phenomenal or horrific in other pieces. But my feelings are restricted to this song as per my original comment. Nothing ‘definitive’.

She is a true musical genius. Storytelling through her beautiful lyrics. And that voice!!

Beautiful voice ... My all time favorite female performer and story teller

Lovely song! Thanks.

What an outstanding, poignant composition - and a thoughtful dedication to Ernest and Hadley Hemingway in a time that was long ago and far away. Mary Chapin Carpenter is such an extraordinary composer and performer. As I listened to this, my my imagination swept me away to that time and place in the past where they loved.

Also see "The Paris Wife" for a great fictionalized treatment of Hadley and Hemingway in Paris.

It's unfortunate, but religious fanaticism seems to haunt us always.

Beautiful.

This song is about Satan worship, anyone that likes it worships Satan.

@Ld X Don't feed the trolls! :)

@Tom Hanlon
SG isn't a troll. He's Danite. LDS is slaking me for this> https://twittercorruption.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/satan-and-bellatrix-in-the-garden-of-eden/

I wrote here three years ago and I only have a stronger feeling for this woman and her music now than I did then.  She is a goddess and my fantasy. Oh that I should ever be in her company.

I could listen to her music all day.  She's so incredibly talented and prolific. <3

This song is about Hadley, Earnest Hemingway's 1st wife. He wrote his memoir of their life in Paris, A Moveable Feast. In, The Paris Wife, Paula McClain, wrote a moving novel in Hadley's perspective of a relationship that was meant to be and a young writer who threw it all away. Hemingway didn't see his memoir completed but suicided from what most would believe regret! This song brings Hadley's feelings to life. But on a good note, she did find love again! :-)

I have Mary Chapin Carpenter alongside Eva Sullivan as my favorite female singers. They are singers that paint pictures in your mind that you can feel.  Gentle people are few anymore and I gravitate to them. 

Well said.

Well said.

Kerith McCoy, that makes two of us. Two properly seasoned, male fans of Ms Carpenter. Cheers.

I'm mid-50's Carribean male and I dicovered MCC in the late 1980's. Her talent and music are enduring and she speaks to some part of everyone's life. She and Jackson Browne have been a crucial part of my life's soundtrack. Thank you Mary!

In awe, as always....beautiful

I just couldn't bear to be that close to her. I'd fall to my knees and weep all over her feet. But otherwise, I couldn't agree more.

I have always felt the same way. I believe she writes directly to those of us who grew up in the 60's and the changes we have seen in the world.

@phuongan1012 I'm reading that book right now and it's really good. This song is a perfect backdrop while I read Hadley's story.

We are about the same age. Give or take a few months. MCC is Feb. 1958/ I'm Sept. 1958. Everything she sings about is like a page taken from my life! She always says/ sings what is in my heart- Are you reading my journal?!!

Amazing, haunting and tearfully beautiful.

So beautifully written and sung with such deep emotion. I love this song!!!!

Dear Mary. Something has deepened in your songs. Perhaps a wound transformed? Or the hand of death touched your back and said "To the real work now"? A wisdom, a glowing prime. As though you were the river before, following yourself, and now? Here comes the sea...

I am in love with this song and I have been in love with this woman for 20+ years. She is the writer of absolutely the best music in that time, bar none. If I could meet her for 10 minutes, I would need to gather myself for the first 5, then MAYBE I could have a marginally intelligent conversation with her for the second 5.

Perfection....