Misc Musicals – The Pirate Queen - Woman (Guitar)

Am         Caug
Woman I am born

C                 D
What does "woman" mean?

Dm                  Am/E
Must my dreams face scorn

E7              Am
Held back and unseen

              Caug
If I long for fire

C              D
Must it stay unreal?

Dm          A/E
Can I not desire?

E7          A
Am I not to feel?

A            D
If I ache to taste

Dm          A
Am I not to try?

A                D
If my heart says sail

Dm           E
Why must I deny?

          A
I have my dreams

            E
I have made plans

         A               D
I see horizons wide as a man's

          A/E              E          A
Must I be nothing till I'm some man's wife?

        E
Does it deceive?

          A                   D
Do I look made to milk and to weave?

          A                 E    D     A
I will be damned to Hell if that is my life!

E F#m Amaj7/E D A/E E A
Tiernan,

Am              Caug
I'm almost your age,

C                 D
I'm your match in size,

Dm                  A/E
I'm your match with swords

E7               A    B
An equal in most eyes

                    E     A
But when you have a dream

                          D    G
And you're caught in it's grip

                       C
You can climb aboard a ship

    B
You can -

    Em      D        G    B
You can for you're a man

                          E      A
You can reach toward that place

                          D    G
Where the earth meets the sky

                  C         B
Fight a battle be brave, be true

   Em      D      G       F#  E    B
If you can do it, why not I?

                 F#
I'm meant to fly

                 B
Sail unrestrained

                          E
Why is man free and woman chained?

           B         F#     B
Is that my epitaph before I die?

           F#
Free to be Grace

          G#m                 E
I want to feel the wind on my face!

              B                 F#
And when life beckons, I should go

E            B                 F#
Face out the storm, not stay below

E       B              F#      B  C# Em B
Am I to be just woman? No! Not I!