On The Way To Jerusalem Lyrics

The song On The Way To Jerusalem is performed by Laurie Anderson in the album named The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories in the year 1995 .



There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior told the nun that if she walked through the countryside with a bag on her head, she would scare people. But the nun insisted, so the mother superior allowed to her to walk around and around the cloister, every day for three years until she covered the equivalent distance to the Holy City. At the end of her journey the nun was so exhausted that she collapsed. A doctor was called. After examining her he announced that she was too weak to make the return trip. The nun died shortly after.



Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories

Mar 1995

  1. The End Of The World
  2. The Salesman
  3. The Night Flight From Houston
  4. Word Of Mouth
  5. The Soul Is A Bird
  6. The Ouija Board
  7. The Ugly One With The Jewels
  8. The Geographic North Pole
  9. John Lilly
  10. The Rotowhirl
  11. On The Way To Jerusalem
  12. The Hollywood Strangler
  13. Maria Teresa Teresa Maria
  14. Someone Else's Dream
  15. White Lily
  16. The Mysterious 'J'
  17. The Cultural Ambassador

On The Way To Jerusalem