Joan Lit The Candle (Chip Taylor) Back Road Music, B.M.I. It was 1429 and the English had occupied all of France north of the Loire There was little resistance due to the lack of leadership and a sense of hopelessness At about this time a young girl began hearing the voices of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret They told her "she had a divine mission to free her country" and she led the troops to a miraculous victory As you know the English later burned her at the stake She was a hell of a woman Oh, she was a good one Stood up to injustice--she would not let that be And these were the tough times And the people were so blind But Joan lit the candle for us all to see She was born in Macedonia Found her way to India Left the convent to work in the slums founding the Missionaries For Charity and the House For The Dying Later she would accept the Nobel Peace Prize in the name of the hungry, the naked, and the homeless, and the crippled, the blind, the lepers, and all the people who feel unwanted and unloved People who for the most part we shun She was a hell of a woman Oh, she was a good one Stood up to injustice--she would not let that be And these were the tough times And the people were so blind And Theresa lit the candle for us all to see Now Branca Pejovik is a Serbian woman who lives on the border of Albania And one day the Serb militants were wreaking havok on her Albanian neighbors They had just killed a few down the street But when they walked up to her friends house she just stood in the doorway She said, "You just ripped the damn hinges off my friends door. Now who the hell is gonna pay for that !?" And with the terrified family hudled behind that door The leader just spit on the floor and said "Well, we'll let NATO pay for that." and laughed and walked away. She's a hell of a woman She's a good one She stood up to injustice--she just would not let that be And these are the tough times People are so blind But Branca lit the candle for us all to see She was a hell of a woman Oh, she was a good one Stood up to injustice--she would not let that be And these were the tough times And the people were so blind But Branca and Theresa and Joan lit the candle for us all to see