Joan oh Joan what might be your fate
For the judges’ investigations they begin
News fresh from Rouen, France of late
How hard they pursue you as a heroine
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Rouen the seat of English occupation
No doubting you are a French soldier
Put on trial by Bishop Pierre Cauchon
Joan not destined to grow much older
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A French cleric, who loves English gold
Yet the church will benefit, never France
Joan the heretic, just nineteen years old
Burnt at the stake death without a chance
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Caught in that engagement at Compiegne
Joan of Arc you will one day become a saint
But as dangerous visionary Maid of Orleans
They set a fire to satisfy such mean distraint.
By A.McTiernan
