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Proserpina Lyrics
(Hera:)
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mother
Come home to mama now
I shall punish the earth
I shall turn down the heat
I shall take away
Every morsel to eat
I shall turn every field into stone
Where I walk, crying alone
Crying for
Proserpina, Proserpina,
Come home to mama
Come home to mama now
(Choir:)
Proserpina, Proserpina,
Go home to your mother
Go home to Hera
Proserpina, Proserpina,
Go home to your mother
Go home to Hera now
She has punished the earth
She has turned down the heat
She has taken away every morsel to eat
She has turned every field into stone
Where she walks, crying alone
Crying for
(Hera:)
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama now
(Choir:)
She has turned every field into stone
Where she walks, crying alone
Crying for
(Hera:)
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama now
(Last song written by Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright’s mother.)
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mother
Come home to mama now
I shall turn down the heat
I shall take away
Every morsel to eat
I shall turn every field into stone
Where I walk, crying alone
Crying for
Come home to mama
Come home to mama now
Proserpina, Proserpina,
Go home to your mother
Go home to Hera
Proserpina, Proserpina,
Go home to your mother
Go home to Hera now
She has turned down the heat
She has taken away every morsel to eat
She has turned every field into stone
Where she walks, crying alone
Crying for
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama now
She has turned every field into stone
Where she walks, crying alone
Crying for
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama
Proserpina, Proserpina
Come home to mama
Come home to mama now
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""Proserpina" is the last song Wainwright's mother Kate McGarrigle wrote before dying of cancer, and it was first heard a performance at the Royal Albert Hall by McGarrigle in December of 2009, just weeks before her death." (Katherine St. Asaph, http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17181-come-home-to-mama (album review)).
During this time, Martha Wainwright was pregnant of her first child while her mother was dying of cancer.