Post by the Scribe on Nov 28, 2023 9:11:45 GMT
Song of Bernadette
"Song of Bernadette" is a song written by Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Bill Elliott, and first recorded on Jennifer Warnes' 1986 album Famous Blue Raincoat. The title refers to Bernadette Soubirous, a young French girl in the mid-19th century who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary on several occasions. She was canonized by the Catholic Church and proclaimed a saint.
There was a child named Bernadette
I heard the story long ago
She saw the Queen of Heaven once
And kept the vision in her soul
No one believed what she had seen
No one believed what she heard
And there was sorrows to be healed
And mercy, mercy in this world
We've been around, we fall, we fly
We mostly fall, we mostly run
And every now and then we try
To mend the damage that we've done
Tonight, tonight I just can't rest
I've got this joy here in, inside my breast
To think that I did not forget that child
That song of Bernadette
So many hearts I find, broke like yours and mine
Torn by what we've done and can't undo
I just want to hold you, come on let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
I just want to hold you, won't you let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
Warnes was inspired to write the song on a bus trip near Lourdes:
I was given the name Bernadette at birth. But my siblings preferred the name "Jennifer" so my name was changed one week later. In 1979, on tour in the south of France with Leonard Cohen, I began writing a series of letters between the "Bernadette" I almost was, and "Jennifer"–two energies within me. One innocent, and the other who had fallen for the world.... So the song arose in a bus nearby Lourdes. I was...thinking about the great Saint who held her ground so well, and was not swayed from what she knew to be true. But the song is also about me longing to return to a place that was more pure, honest and true. I still long for this, and I think others do too."
The song was covered by Bette Midler and opened her 1998 studio album Bathhouse Betty.
Anne Murray included this song on her two CD set released in 1999 called "What a Wonderful World."
The song was performed as a duet by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt on the former's album, The Grand Tour. The same performers sang it live on Neville's televised Christmas special.
The title is derived from the 1941 novel The Song of Bernadette, by Franz Werfel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Bernadette_(song)
"Song of Bernadette" is a song written by Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Bill Elliott, and first recorded on Jennifer Warnes' 1986 album Famous Blue Raincoat. The title refers to Bernadette Soubirous, a young French girl in the mid-19th century who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary on several occasions. She was canonized by the Catholic Church and proclaimed a saint.
There was a child named Bernadette
I heard the story long ago
She saw the Queen of Heaven once
And kept the vision in her soul
No one believed what she had seen
No one believed what she heard
And there was sorrows to be healed
And mercy, mercy in this world
We've been around, we fall, we fly
We mostly fall, we mostly run
And every now and then we try
To mend the damage that we've done
Tonight, tonight I just can't rest
I've got this joy here in, inside my breast
To think that I did not forget that child
That song of Bernadette
So many hearts I find, broke like yours and mine
Torn by what we've done and can't undo
I just want to hold you, come on let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
I just want to hold you, won't you let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
Warnes was inspired to write the song on a bus trip near Lourdes:
I was given the name Bernadette at birth. But my siblings preferred the name "Jennifer" so my name was changed one week later. In 1979, on tour in the south of France with Leonard Cohen, I began writing a series of letters between the "Bernadette" I almost was, and "Jennifer"–two energies within me. One innocent, and the other who had fallen for the world.... So the song arose in a bus nearby Lourdes. I was...thinking about the great Saint who held her ground so well, and was not swayed from what she knew to be true. But the song is also about me longing to return to a place that was more pure, honest and true. I still long for this, and I think others do too."
The song was covered by Bette Midler and opened her 1998 studio album Bathhouse Betty.
Anne Murray included this song on her two CD set released in 1999 called "What a Wonderful World."
The song was performed as a duet by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt on the former's album, The Grand Tour. The same performers sang it live on Neville's televised Christmas special.
The title is derived from the 1941 novel The Song of Bernadette, by Franz Werfel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Bernadette_(song)