Joan
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_Words & music by Heather Dale (SCA: Mistress Marian of Heatherdale) -- used
with permission.
Please visit www.HeatherDale.com [1] or iTunes for her recordings!
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I am as God made me, I have no desire,
For a mouth at my breast or a pot on the fire,
I heed the higher voices; I go where I'm sent,
To mow down the men who refuse to repent,
I'm a scythe, in a field full of briars.
_And they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan.
They'll know me as Joan._
The courage of Catherine, the flames of the forge,
the sword of Saint Michael, the blood of Saint George,
I take what I'm given, I follow my truth,
I gladly abandon the bloom of my youth,
I'm the lashing, that falls from the scourge.
_And they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan.
They'll know me as Joan._
I fight where God tells me, I never ask why,
I've bloodied the Devil, with steel from on high,
I kill without consequence, heed no man's law.
I sift out the righteous like grain from the straw.
I am judgment, and Heaven is nigh.
_And they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan._
They won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan.
_No they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan._
_No they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan._
_They won't call me mother, or sister, or wife,
They will know me or not by the strength of my life,
I will burn with a light of my own.
They'll know me as Joan.
They'll know me as Joan._
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