Matapedia by Kate & Anna McGarrigle

[MrCematin]

the beloved song of my best friend wolfgang, who died 2008, i hope so much that he can meet you kate , and soon i can meet you both, love forever

[Broblem12]

Lovely.

[davekealey1]

This song was in my heart and head while flyfishing on the Matapedia today.

[sugarfoot59]

This is the first time I've heard this song, and I like it. Sometimes, you run across a gem, and this is..........a gem.

[Aesop059]

@sugarfoot59 Yes, a pure Gem. Quality, emotive, descriptive, melodic, erotic, nostalgic, everythingic. Love it forever.

[drogheda1966]

Does anyone have 'Hit & Run Love', from Heartbeats Accelerating to upload? That's a truly terrific song but the album has too many achingly sad moments for me to purchase it, I just can't. Would be Greatly appreciated...

[missmabel]

@drogheda1966 Sure, but it'll be the same quality as this. Be back in a few...

[missmabel]

@drogheda1966 Click on my channel (my name) and it should be the first video listed.

[MarieAlice55]

Nice song! It caught my attention the first time I heard it. Thank you for sharing this here on YouTube.

[russtacean]

Kate,

may you always run in our hearts...

there's a big empty space here without you.

with hope to meet you on the other side

on that shore of white sand...

peace and starry nights,

russ

[Michinil]

My favorite McGarrigle song.

[lastrada52]

I play "Matapedia" often -- followed by the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset," "Shangri La," Annie Haslam's version of "Going Home," Leonard Cohen's "Song Long, Marianne," and Tom Waits' "Martha." The rest of the world disappears when these magicians begin to sing. I don't even allow anyone to speak while these songs play. Some people find peace in prayer. I find it listening to these songs. RIP Kate. Thank you for allowing our ears keep you close.

[petermurphy00hotmail]

The greatest love song ever. It captures young love like no other song. I miss Kate.

[transporter49]

Wonderful post!

[djinni62]

I have loved this song for such a long time. I finally found the lyrics for it, but would like the guitar chords for it. I didnt realise the link with Rufus and Loddon (another favourite 'Primrose Hill') What joyous music they must have played together

[Jarrahnut]

Do I need a new pair of spectacles ... or ... what?

[rbradaigh]

Kate you and your songs will live in our hearts forever.

[canfor5]

A beautiful song. RIP Kate.

[Aesop059]

@canfor5 Yes, only the good die young

[wittsfriends]

When Matapedia came out i could hardly wait to buy it. This song is my favorite on the album. I played this CD for everyone who came to visit! My love to all of Kate's beautiful family. Thankyou all.

[robadr1]

Thank you so much Kate. Bless you Anna, Rufus, and Martha.

[dialacroc]

Beautiful music. RIP Kate, greatly missed.

[kabewest]

I`m 56, from London,UK. Kate & Anna taught me about Canada. Rest in Peace Kate. Your music will live on long after the class of 68.

Stephen

[brendanseanbarry]

The assurance of the delivery is staggering. Pure genius.

[nllleonard]

It is a great comfort to see the numbers of people who celebrate and mourn together for this beloved and dear one here.

[Jarrahnut]

Jeez ... it's hard to believe ...

[rhavens8]

I've been having my private memorial to the magnificent Kate, here in the rainy Bay Area tonight. This is my single favorite of her rich legacy of songs--from my favorite of their albums. RIP

[loseweightmakemoney]

I have been looking for one of her songs and I can't remember the name of it. The tune is stuck in my head. Part of the lyric goes (I think) and "he goes round and round"

In Canada they used to play the song on TV with an animated video of a lumberjack dude rolling along on a log.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

[lfurlotte99]

That would be the Log Drivers Waltz. :-)

[loseweightmakemoney]

Thanks!

[mafketays]

Rest in peace, Kate. You brought a lot of beauty into a world that really needed it.

[stefandavidovici]

this song was for me, newly arrived in Canada at the end of the nineties, a priceless key to the soul of my adoptive country.

still today I hear it and I literally feel the mighty St Laurent river, flowing stubbornly Eastward, powerful and endless.

thank you for your gift, Kate and Anna.

rest in peace, Kate.

[pfinlay]

Rest in peace.

[brendanseanbarry]

A masterpiece. Thanks

[Jarrahnut]

I was first turned on to these lovely singers by hearing their original version of "Heart Like A Wheel" in about the early seventies. It's a very beautiful song. Best wishes to you, Gruffydd.

[missmabel]

LOVE Heart Like a Wheel.

[Jarrahnut]

@missmabel

Yes, it is indeed a most lovely song missmabel. I had a lovely Aunt Mabel when I was a little boy in Llandudno. She always had a sweet smile on her face. She was very kind to me. It's my guess, missmabel ... that you're very nice too. Merry Ticklemas!

[missmabel]

lol You too Uncle Jarrahnut!

[Jarrahnut]

Missmabel, I think your train of thought is more likely to be correct. You're on the rail, gal. Whilst they were trying to catch a boat ... they were, in fact, racing a train ... but ... of course ... I could be disrailed on this ... toot! ... toot! What do Kate and Anna have to say about this? Greetings to one all from Jarrahnut in wonderful Western Australia.

[Gruffydd555]

Good Lord Jarrahnut! Another McGarrigle fan in Western Australia. For the last twenty plus years I've had to fly the flag on my own.

Matapedia is where it started for me, a long and fantastic voyage. Kate and Anna you are awesome.

[Jarrahnut]

@Gruffydd555

Gruffydd, unfortunately, I haven't been granted a peerage ... as yet. Your name sounds Welsh. My mother was born in Penmachno, North Wales. She was a fluent Welsh speaker. I did most of my schooling in the Llandudno area. My wife thinks I deserve a peerage ... don't you ... dear?

[missmabel]

I always wondered if it was a train running alongside the Matapedia river, because the song has the "chug a chug a" rhythm of a train.

[DukeStreetBill]

@missmabel Nope, they're in a car, trying to make it to the ferry. That's the landscape ticking by at a mile per minute, along with the time.

[adidasrom]

The Matapedia is a river in Quebec. The song brings us back to Kate's youth when she and her boyfirend were racing to catch the ferry - racing along beside the river.

[adidasrom]

And of course the first girl mentioned in the sing is the fine musician Martha Wainwright (the daughter of Kate).

[Jarrahnut]

I've enjoyed this number for about twenty-odd years but ... will someone please tell me ... was is this "Matapedia"?

[wheelnut059]

The "Matapedia" is a River. I can hear the flow of a river in the beat, I think. Anyway, it is one of my favourite productions and very emotive.

[Robert3146]

Six years after Heart Beats Accelerating comes Matapedia. Thanks Kate and Anna! It was well worth the wait.

[banksiasong]

Kate and Anna's performance of this song is beautiful and remarkable.

Thank you for including the lyrics Miss Mabel.

[rbradaigh]

Then the "big middle-aged hands" must have been those of Loudon Wainwright III since the song seems autobiographical.

[paronomeister]

No it was the guy back home she *didn't* marry at a reunion after Martha had grown up....