I need help! Who sings the song "Oleander"?

I found this song called "Oleander". It goes:


"Oleander, Oleander, will you bloom again next spring . . ."


I think the version I found Sarah Harmer is singing, but does anyone know if she is the original artist and if not who is? I would also like to find the lyrics somewhere. Thanks!!

I need help! Who sings the song "Oleander"?
Artist: Sarah Harmer


Song: Oleander


Album: I'm A Mountain


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Oleander, Oleander


Will you bloom again this spring?


I adored you


Then I ignored you


And now to me you're everything


And those white blossoms that you gave freely


Are now just twinkles in your eye


Oh behold her


Oleander grows on the inside





She will forgive me


For I bring water


A sunny window to sit by


Oleander, I understand her


She's just waiting for the time


To say it's all right


Another season has brought us another chance


We're together in this hot weather to dance





Oleander, I think you're better


I think you made it through another winter.





Nothing has ended


It's all been mended


It's the way that it should be


You're coming back


You're coming back


It was so lonely here just me


This time no promises of what's to come


We'll just live it for the day


Oleander I see you stand there and I know you'll be ok





Oleander I think you're better


I think you made it through another winter
Reply:Sarah Harmer wrote it. Here is an article about her:





Originally Published: 03/03/2006 in Washington City Paper


Trail Mix


By Mario Correa (Freelancer)





The land looms large on Sarah Harmer’s new record—not just the hills and valleys of bluegrass but also the dramatic topology of the Niagara Escarpment, a biosphere reserve threatened by commercial exploitation and the place where the Canadian singer-songwriter was raised. I’m a Mountain took shape during a series of performances held by Harmer and her band along the Escarpment’s Bruce Trail, and it shows: “If they blow a hole in my backyard,” she sings on “Escarpment Blues,” “everyone is gonna run away.” Harmer, a veteran of alt-country’s little-known Weeping Tile, nabbed a Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year with her previous album, 2004’s darker, atmospheric All of Our Names. I’m a Mountain travels a decidedly dustier path than that record: Out are the drums, synths, and ambient guitars; in are the banjos, mandolins, and fiddles. The disc’s 11 tracks are, not surprisingly, all mountain songs. On both the sprightly “The Phoenix” and the sleepier “Oleander,” Harmer balances her eye for nature with a talent for avoiding sounding like a bumper sticker: “And those white blossoms that you gave freely/Are now just twinkles in your eye,” she sings sweetly to a neglected house plant on the latter. Less appealing is the French-language lullaby “Salamandre,” whose lyrics (by adult-contemp compatriot Kate Fenner) are about as subtle as an ode to a friendly lizard, a secret map, and a golden tree can be. A cover of Dolly Parton’s “Will He Be Waiting for Me”—a parable of arable land that elides the distinctions between heavenly and earthly lovin’—nicely showcases Harmer’s affection not just for the land but also for the people on it. Ditto for “Goin’ Out,” the title track, and “I Am Aglow,” on which those same folks are dyin’, survivin’, or just tryin’ to figure out what the hell they’re doin’. It was Parton’s own career-reviving return to bluegrass, begun with 1999’s The Grass Is Blue, that prompted her to quip, “you gotta get rich in order to sing like you’re poor again.” Harmer may not boast Parton’s pocketbook—or even her famous topography—but on I’m a Mountain, she proves she’s capable of some notable peaks of her own.