Link → Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Real Sisters of Mercy and Their Night With Leonard Cohen
“City Sisters Brought Cohen A Song” by Sandra Sperounes (23 July 2008 Edmonton Journal) is an excellent, concise exposition of the night Barbara and Lorraine spent with Leonard Cohen, a meeting that was transformed into the classic Cohen song, “Sisters of Mercy,” the sisters themselves, and the 1966 version of Leonard Cohen.
Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can’t go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who’ve been travelling so long.
