Song for Bernadette - Judy Collins

You know one probably terribly well

And that’s my, my mentor and my friend, Leonard Cohen

He wrote this with Jennifer Warnes

Who is a wonderful singer and a wonderful writer too

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

That there were sorrows to be healed

And mercy, mercy in this world

So many hearts I find

Hearts 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

We’ve ran 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 down here in my breast

To think that I did not forget

That song, that song of Bernadette

So many hearts I find

Hearts 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

Come on, let me hold you

Like Bernadette would do