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A true story, my friends, I now tell to you,
A strange thing occurred that soon became news:
A statue of Saint Anne from a window was knocked,
In a driveway below it fell on a rock.
A little girl ran to the statue below,
But when she got there it was broken, and so;
She picked up its head and kissed it so dear,
In the eyes of Saint Anne a tear did appear.
No one understood how the statue could cry,
The whole world was shocked by the tears in its eyes;
And only a kiss from this little girl,
Caused Saint Anne to cry, and it startled the world.
It's rain-soaked, I know - God changed the rain to tears,
This story shall live throughout many years;
How this little girl called both world and man,
To believe in the Lord and the tears of Saint Anne.
This variant arranged and recorded by Dick Nolan (My Beautiful Island, trk#5, 1991, Heritage Music, Scarborough, Ontario); and (My East Coast, trk#7, 2001, Heritage Music, Scarborough, Ontario).
Note: According to BMI, a song with a similar title, Tears of St. Ann is credited to Jimmy Osborne who recorded it as a single in 1949, and on The Legendary Jimmy Osborne, Volume 2, in 1961.
