Wainwright, Rufus - Martha Lyrics

Seems more than a little depressing. Why listen to a depressing song?

Bill N the song has a hopeful message as well. Sad songs let us know we’re not alone and bring a feeling of comfort to some people.

Oh my Rufus

What an amazingly talented family. I could only wish.

Good Lord! This is incredibly beautiful! Hits home on so many levels...

First time I've ever heard this...FFS I'm 70 years old ...where have I been all this time ?

september 2019 i met the story of a great singer rufus winwrigth i´m in love with your trajectory what a beautiful family. you are a precious instrument of God praise the name of the lord for his all honor and glory and without him we are nothing we are just dust God has called you to a higher purpose and better if you can imagine one day you will praise in heaven together with the angels in a place where there is no weeping in pain, God bless.

This makes more sense than what i was expecting: Doug Sahm's "mendocino"

Precious Gem. Oh my!

love the way they have the same movements and they don't even know it

i would like to play on wooden piano and flute thank you rufus

I've been living in Budapest recently and made friends with an elderly American woman from Mendocino. She was amazed when I said I'd been there. I explained that one of the most beautiful songs ever written was named after her town. As a long-time fan of Kate and Anna, I simply had to visit when I found myself travelling around the west coast. So glad I did. As nice as this is, it's impossible to improve on the perfection of the original.

Thanks for sharing!

Is there a more talented musical family out there.. I don't think so.

Heaven sent.

Very beautyfull song with splendid Singers like Rufus and Martha Wainwright : my heart is broken and I want cry very hard this big emotion, the sad, very sad feeling and I love them and this Song : We thought about Kate of course ! There Mother - Very very nice Woman !!! I thing very often about Her and her children ! Marie-Laure (from France)

I grew up outside of Saratoga Springs NY, where the Caffe Lena was and heard Kate and Anna whenever they played. I used to stare up at them on the stage, just a few feet away, amazed at their beauty and talent and commitment. One night I heard myself tell myself that I could be anything I put my mind to.. they were that inspiring. I remember Kate looking down at me and smiling. Maybe she heard me.

Beyond beautiful.

I turn into a blubbering sob case every time I hear this. Their mother and author of this song, has already passed away from illness. Knew nothing of the McGarrigle sisters until I read a piece in Stereo Review claiming they had the best album of that year. Later Rufus and Martha came along and became stars themselves.

Wowwwwww

Such a simple and lovely piano accompaniment.

Thanks for watching!

Absolutely beautiful
Wow

sounds very beautiful, their voices together!

@TheHeidille Well, a new album is coming out in April. I really hope it's good!

I am an atheist, but I'm rather sure Kate McGarrigle listened to this.

you all owe it to yourselves to listen to this with good headphones

For a slightly different take on this you may like John Howard's version of this song. This is still canon to me but his is great too.

No offense, but if you had heard Kate and Anna perform this shortly after Kate wrote it, you would be thumbs-downing this lame derivative version too. This, regrettably, just doesn't compare to the original. It's like listening to Dylan's kid and thinking you're gonna get Dylan. Nope. It doesn't work that way.

Gee...if Rufus were only 1/10th as good as his mom, Kate was...but alas...not to be.

KINKY, LISTEN TO STING AND RUFUS AND TELL ME IF RUFUS WERE ONLY 1/10 AS GOOD AS HIS MOM

It's a very very troubled magnific dramatic and splendid song whose I cry when I listen it, your voices are together a magic symbiose woman, man : GOD Light ! Marvellous ! many thanks ! Marie-Laure

miss the 3rd part harmony from Kate

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL SONG AND RUFUS, MARTHA AND ANNA SO TO !!!! I LOVE YOU ! too many thanks at you !Marie-Laure from France !

Just absolutely gorgeous

This song has been sung so many times by so many major talents eg: Linda Ronstadt that any new interpretation is going to be judged. I will not do that, the song stands on its own. every version that I have ever heard brings tears to my eyes.

I hear love for Kate in this! there seems to be something really special about family harmonies...

Beautiful.

Melts my heart each and every time.

Just listen, just listen, it's enough.

Oh my <3

hello....is there someone who has partiture of this song for wind band?

I never noticed (until now) the juxtaposition of the deciduous trees in New York shining like gold in the autumn, and the evergreen redwoods of California. The beauty of the northeast in fall is something poignant all its own, and leaving it behind would be uniquely nostalgic.

I knew right away that the Mcgarrigle sisters wrote this song. It's so lovely!I dream of playing with my aunt and sister! His voice is timeless and more passionate than any man at least for me. Martha's harmony is nothing short of perfect pitch and beauty. Families making music together is a beautiful beautiful thing. So glad to be a musician... Nothing more satisfying upon the earth. Rufus gives every molecule of himself when he sings. Thank you !

happy family

So by the time a person gets to be my age, 62, they begin to think they might have seen or heard it all. I have my favorites;
places, books, opera's, music. Rufus has always been a favorite, but until today I had never heard the McGarrigle sisters sing. I spent all afternoon listening and it was such a lovely afternoon. I found all sorts of treasures. So Rufus, your mama sang like an angel and I only just discovered it.

Now I'm gonna cry. C'est tellement beau. This is absolutely beautiful

their mannerisms when singing are so similar, you can really tell that they're siblings, and it just adds to their harmony imo. most heartfelt version i've ever heard.

Again, Rufus and Martha are breaking my heart.

💖💖💖💖

So beautiful...

It really is!

Beautiful !!!

Wow! Epic but tender.

de una belleza suprema! emociona!me parte en dos! me hace volar! gracias!

Now this is music

Rufus has the purest voice, and Martha is a gem.

Not the best version. Better without Rufus.

What a family!

Wow so beautiful.

Super. This is perfect. Unique. Great voice

Love you Kate

I don't get his popularity. He misses notes like crazy.

Coming from a professional musical family myself, I can tell you why he missed that ONE note early on = this was an emotional family experience for him and he choked a little. It happens .... and so what? When my Dad did his amazing version of "Danny Boy" the rest of the family choked! How amazing that Rufus got through most of the homages to Kate. Sometimes people forget that performers are human beings first!!

As a kid, I spend 3 weeks each summer in upstate NY near Lake George, it was paradise on earth back then.

Harmony as taught my the family! Wonderful!

Sorry but Rufus can't sing.

You mean “I think you’re tone deaf.”

Tim Smith, still, it’s “I think you’re tone deaf,” not “I think your tone deaf.” Since you clearly know nothing about grammar or spelling, what makes you think you know anything about music?”

He's not mainstream because some of the best are never mainstream. It takes a little effort to appreciate them, and more substantial musical knowledge to "get" them.

TIM =LISTEN TO STING AND RUFUS YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND

I rise with it till I rise no more.

What a beautiful performance and tribute to Kate McGarrigle by her talented children. I pray they will have long and bountiful careers. And to see sister Anna playing in Kate's stead is a moving sight to behold, as well.

Gorgeous.

They miss their mom...she gave them the gift of music which now has become a gift to me. Beautiful.

Il love Kate ans Anna Mc Garrigle

Ok. Who were the 21 who didn't like this? Your souls are made of stone.

unbelievable any one could not love this !

Maybe the people who heard Kate sing it right after she wrote it??? Those who lived with her in those days, like me? Those who have enough musical discretion or history to know um...this ain't it!

@Kinky but these are her babies

@Kinky you're a bitter old queen.

Does anyone know if this version is available on cd? Exquisite....

Doesn't matter what country you're from - I'm English for example - this melts the heart.

/speechless and slack jawed

Fckn brill

It just doesn't get any better than this.

Stunningly calm ...... my favourite version

I love it!

maybe it's moving across country and maybe it's losing my mother and maybe it's growing old and maybe it's too many photographs of dead people on my coffee table.. but this song brings tears to my eyes every single time

You are not alone in that. I share all of those thoughts.

The pianist is the hero here

That song just leaves such a timeless and lasting memory for those of us that see and hear the beauty in these lyrics, Kate sure passed on some seriously great genes to her children , they have mannerisms like her and the harmony is hauntingly familier , and also their father has had his share in how they have grown and developed into who they are today , I just can't listen to them without seeing their mother and how she sang with such grace and Anna also the Legacy lives on thru them and their offspring ! Thank you so very much for being so gracious in sharing Kates gift and your own with us all .

Fabulous❤️❤️❤️

What a beautiful rendition!

My kind of music. Emotionally wrenching for all the best reasons.

I get goosebumps just listening to this beautitiful song and the Wainright's amazing voices! The most harmonious of harmonies!

Wonderful

just bloody beautiful.

WOW WOW WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

Makes me tear up listening to this majestic song and thinking about Kate's kids (and my one-time producer Brad Albetta's wife Martha) singing with their aunt Anna on piano shortly after their mother's passing.

awesome!

That was wonderful.

major chicken skin

Kate McGarrigle, you are so much missed!
Bravo to Rufus, Martha and Anna!

yes so totally

Wow just Wow

Goose pim

que voz.!!!!! Meu Deus.!!! eles cantam com o coração.! verdadeira canção do coração

Best version. End of story.

perfection.

It certainly is my favorite version and I have many.

Never ends ☺

music from the heart

<3 <3 dont' know how to add my other brother w/. He passed away. I love myBrothers... I miss them... I miss the one in Wisc. that I might see some day soon. I am inCalif.

Where poetic songwriting and harmonious performance gel into one amazing piece of art. This is one of the great ballads, underrated, lacking the fame it deserves. Ditto for Rufus Wainwright and his sister although that is changing among those in the know. Rufus' vocals on songs like "Go or Go Again " "Going to a Town," and "Angus Dei" are some of the best make pop vocals in the last 25 years.

Couldn't agree more. Remember first hearing the McGarrigle sisters way back in the 1970s.

"Go or Go Ahead" is the name of the song. It's about Rufus' days as a crystal meth addict, which ended in 2002.

Why do people use the word underrated SO much?

Heartbreaking.