The song of bernadette jennifer warnes biography

"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. Warnes was inspired to write the song on a bus trip near Lourdes: The song was covered by Bette Midler and opened her 1998 studio album Bathhouse Betty.