Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Matapedia lyrics

rate me

Her hair was dyed black and she was bending down

Picking something from off the ground

She was seventeen

And he said, "Oh my God, it's Kate"

She said "No, I'm the daughter of Kate

My name is Martha, who are you?

Ma never told me, never told me 'bout you"

He put his big middle-aged hands upon her shoulders

And he looked her in the eyes

Just like a boy of nineteen would do

And she was not afraid

No, she was not afraid

Once upon a time two kids in love in a car were flyin'

over mountains

Trying to catch a boat that'd take 'em up river to

home...

And they raced the Matapedia

Sixty minutes sixty miles

Thirty minutes thirty miles

Twenty minutes twenty miles

Ten nine eight...

And I was not afraid

No, I was not afraid

Well we made the boat with minutes to spare

And we crossed on over to the other side

And back home, safe and sound

But I could not slow down

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No, I could not slow down

And we raced the Matapedia

Sixty minutes sixty miles

Thirty minutes thirty miles

Twenty minutes twenty miles

Ten nine eight

But I could not slow down

No, I could not slow down

I was not afraid

No, I was not afraid

I could not slow down 'cause I was not afraid