Music Monday: Songs of Our Lives Meme

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28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love

The Water Lily by Priscilla Herdman

"The Water Lily" (Watch on YouTube)

I have a thing for alto voices. I've already showcased Mary Fahl (October Project), Annie Lennox (Eurythmics), and Tracey Thorne (Everything but the Girl) in this space.

Here's a fairly obscure folksinger whose voice has comforted me a number of times, including during the scary hospital stay in my early 30s when I first became a heart patient. The words to this were written by Henry Lawson ( 1867–1922), Australian writer and "bush poet." Herdman's album of the same title includes a number of songs by Lawson. I think this one is the most beautiful and by far the most haunting.