Joan of Arc (Leonard Cohen) - Allison Crowe w. lyrics video free download

On her debut album "secrets" Allison Crowe included this Leonard Cohen song cover. Her voice and piano is accompanied by Jo Lundstrom (Rosehip Jam, Black Velvet Band) on accordion. Crowe engineered the recording, with production by Rainer Willeke (of Victoria, B.C.'s Raindog Studios).

http://music.allisoncrowe.com/track/joan-of-arc

The photo of Allison Crowe is by Billie Woods.

MOJO magazine's December '08 issue paid tribute to "Rock's Greatest Poet" Leonard Cohen with a celebration of his "deep and moving music". Of Allison Crowe's contribution of "Joan of Arc" to its 'All Star Tribute", (featuring Judy Collins, Nick Cave, Katie Melua, Martha Wainwright, Dion and others), a cover-mount CD titled "Cohen Covered", MOJO says: "Once famously described by the Vancouver Courier as possessing a style akin to 'Elton John meets Edith Piaf', the Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe is renowned for her ability to blend control and melodrama. Certainly she does so on this spirited cover of Cohen's 'Songs of Love and Hate' classic, a track which also powerfully showcases her considerable talent as a fine interpreter of song."

"Any album that features a track from Leonard Cohen is certainly heading in the right direction. But when it is covered so beautifully, it makes you realise what an amazing lyricist Leonard Cohen is. Joan of Arc is the Cohen song covered on this album and it's certainly in my top 10 of Cohen covers. It's also my favorite track on (Secrets)" ~ Colin Meeks, indielaunchpad.com (USA)

Joan of Arc

Words & Music by Leonard Cohen

As performed by Allison Crowe

Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc

as she came riding through the dark;

no moon to keep her armour bright,

no man to get her through this dark and smoky night.

She said, "I'm tired of the war,

I want the kind of work I had before,

A wedding dress or something white

to wear upon my swollen appetite."

Well, I'm glad to hear you talk this way,

I've watched you riding every day

and there is something in me that yearns to win

such a cold, such a lonesome heroine.

"And who are you?" she sternly spoke

to the one beneath the smoke.

"Why, I'm fire," he replied,

"And I love your solitude, I love your pride."

"Well, then, fire make your body cold,

I'm going to give you mine to hold."

And saying this she climbed inside

to be his one, to be his only bride.

Then deep into his fiery heart

he took the dust of Joan of Arc,

and high above all these wedding guests

he hung the ashes of her lovely wedding dress.

It was deep into his fiery heart

he took the dust of Joan of Arc,

and then she clearly understood

if he was fire, oh, she must be wood.

I saw her wince, I saw her cry,

I saw the glory in her eye.

Myself I long for love and light,

but must it come so cruel,

must it be so bright?