Marie Joseph, we know your shame.
Marie Joseph, we're proud of your fame.
Marie Joseph, what're your offspring named?
Marie Joseph Angelique!

Marie Joseph Angelique, master'n'mistress are gonna beat.
Marie Joseph Angelique, the governor's gonna add to the heat.
Marie Joseph, flee to the church, kneel at the holy feet,
Say you're sorry, confess you were weak
Marie Joseph Angelique!

Marie Joseph Angelique,
Father, mother, brother, sister you've none.
Marie Joseph Angelique,
perhaps your only friend is the nozzle of a gun.
Marie Joseph Angelique,
the man may love you but he done gone
Marie Joseph, what's left for you now, Marie Joseph Angelique?

You lost your head, lost your kin, lost your limb
You forgot your station, kept a paramour.
Pioneer of liberty, equality, fraternity,
you broke the brutal bonds of slavery.
You helped your captors dig your own grave
left those keepers fettered in caves
of power, lust, greed and perpetual need
for a slave, oh, for power over slaves.

Run Marie, run Marie, run Marie, run!
You did what you had to and that was your fun.
You didn't harken to master's "come-on".
No, you did your thing and now you have to run.
So run Marie, run Marie, run Marie, run!

Earth, water, air, fire,
tin, pewter, silver, gold.
Commodity, demon, virgin, goddess,
Madonna, Isis, Hatshepsut
Regardless of label you really are
Martyr and true patriot
Marie Joseph Angelique

Marie Joseph Angelique,
never heard the word equality.
Didn't know slogans of democracy.
Wouldn't have dreamed 'bout multi-ethnicity,
The new coinage for non-entity
Marie Joseph Angelique.

Marie Joseph Angelique,
mothered gender emancipation
wrestled with shackles of male subjugation
defied death, demanded dignity
began activating our autonomy
Marie
Marie Joseph
Marie Joseph Angelique.