Bette Midler

Released: October 10, 2000

Songwriter: Billy Steinberg Marie-Claire Cremers Rick Nowels

Producer: Don Was Rick Nowels

Bless you chi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ild

You suffer, you're human
You sin, you fail
You love, you hate, you ail
You hunger, you lust, you deceive
You trust, you disbelieve

Bless you for your weakness
Bless you for your strength
Bless you for that smile
That is so hard to trace
Ooooh, bless you child, bless you child

You wander, you come home
You can't survive this world alone
You deny, you admit
You start, you can't quit

Bless you for your weakness
Bless you for your strength
Bless you for that smile
That is so hard to trace
Ooooh, bless you child, bless you child

Sometimes an ending is the best place to start
Bless yourself, bless your heart
Bless yourself, bless your heart

Hey hey hey yeah, uh huh
Hey hey hey yeah, uh huh
Hey hey hey yeah, uh huh
Hey hey hey, ohhhhh!

Bless you for your weakness
Bless you for your strength
Bless you for that smile
That is so hard to trace
Ooooh, bless you child, bless you child

Oh pleeeease, yeah. Bless you child
I say now. I say now
I know it's true

Bless yourself, bless your heart
Bless yourself, bless your heart
Bless yourself, bless your heart
Oh pleeeeeease

Bless yourself, bless your heart
Bless you child
Bless you child
I know it's true

Bless you child
Bless yourself, bless your heart . .

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.

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