The song seeks pure water

I don’t know if all of you, listeners to this Easter Sunday, have this kind of association of ideas, but when we talk about pure water, spring water, a few million French speakers immediately think of this song recorded in 1971, by Johnny Hallyday.

Indeed, he has rarely sung gospel as typical as this – in form as in text. And, when we turn over the cover of the LP, we see that the original song on which Philippe Labro wrote lyrics is called Drink From the Water – yes, it’s about water.

But we are in France, and the adaptation tells us about another drink.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

• Johnny Hallyday, You have to drink from the source, 1971
• Anne Sylvester, watershed, 2001
• Henry Salvador, Give, give, 1988
• Francoise Hardy, Tamalu, nineteen eighty one
• Goel, The water, 2018
• George Moustaki, The waters of Mars, 1973
• Francois Beranger, song for her, 2002
• Johnny Hallyday, You have to drink from the source, 1971

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