The Deacon's Bench
People forget that Leonard Cohen wrote something else besides the now-ubiquitous “Hallelujah”.
He composed this haunting ode to love and human frailty, “Song of Bernadette.” Here’s the great Jennifer Warnes — whatever happened to her, by the way? — performing this, evidently on “The Smothers Brothers” show in the early 1970s.
UPDATE: A friend on Facebook pointed me to this more recent rendition, from Aaron Neville and Linda Rondstadt…
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