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Words and music by Dale Jones

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Lionhearts
© Dale Jones

Though these days
One power reigns
There’s you who will find
What the truth is
To you so brave
We give you the name
Lionhearts

They’re heavy days, these
Without the chance
To find out what is real
And these illusions
Appear before us
Being all we see
There’s voices in the distance
But it’s getting
Hard to hear them
Through the smokescreens
The sounds are the pleading
Of those with lives in bondage
Wrongly suffering

Though these days
One power reigns
There’s you who will find
What the truth is
To you so brave
We give you the name
Lionhearts

A noble cause
Yes, defenders of a system
True and just
To keep the white world rich
The third world’s fight
For freedom
Must be crushed
Now if the tales were told
What secrets would unfold
No-one can know
No-one but those
Who live for knowing,
Knowing

Chorus

What finer way
Than TV screens
Foe keeping people
Deaf and blind
A shadow world
Lies behind the trivia
The news headlines

Now if the tales were told
What secrets would unfold
No-one can know
No-one but those
Who live for knowing,
Knowing

Chorus

To you so brave
We give you the name
Lionhearts

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from Legacy: Two Decades of Topical Writing, released July 1, 2010

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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