Outlaw Jessica Jane

[Johanna]

Move over   Mary Jane,

Move Over G.I. Jane,

Move Over Calamity Jane

 

Where is Jessica Jane ?

 

Jessica Jane

Strong-arm lady of an outlaw clan.

She twirled an old Colt forty-five;

They never took Jessica Jane alive

 

Jessica was the queen of the West

Held a diamond heart in her left breast

She’d a fire in her heart no hurt could stifle;

Lion eyes and a Winchester rifle.

 

Jessica rode through a sleeping town;

Looked the moonlit street both up and down;

Crack-crack-crack, the street ran flames

And a great voice cried, “I’m Jessica Jane.

 

Jessica Jane rode hell for leather;

She was a horse and a woman together;

In a cave in a mountain high up in air

Shlived with a rattlesnake, a wolf, and a bear.

 

Jessica’s heart was too hard for a woman;

For guts and strength she was super-human;

She could put six shots through a woodpecker’s eye

And take in one swallow a gallon of rye.

 

They sought her here and they sought her there,

But she strides by night through the ways of the air;

They say she was took and they say she is dead

But she ain’t – she’s a sunset overhead.

 

Yes, Jessica Jane was a two-gun lady

The same as when this poem  began;

And when you see a sunset burst into flame

Or a thunderstorm blaze

— that’s– Jessica Jane!

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