honor the crone

The Croning Song

Credits:

This jazzy duet sung by Donna and Melanie was composed for Donna as a gift for her croning rite of passage. Alane Crowomyn wrote the song and Donna improvised the tags not included in the lyrics below. It’s on our album Crow Magic, track 17, available from our store. Charlie sure sounds great on that drum kit, right?

Lyrics:

I am a wise woman
I am the crone
I am a wise woman
I am the crone
I am no one’s to use
And I may still sing the blues
But if I do
It’s ‘cause I choose

You are a wise woman
You are the crone
You are a wise woman
You are the crone
You are no one’s to use
And you may still sing the blues
But if you do
It’s ‘cause you choose
     music & lyrics © Alane Susan Brown (ASCAP) 2019

YouTube video:

Blog posts relevant to this song

Emmeline Pankhurst was already a crone when she led the women's suffrage movement in England.

Ancient Goddesses, Grandmothers and Crones

Another Ritual to Celebrate the Crone In my last post about Croning, I explained the importance of demarking this important life transition with ritual. (Go back and read that to catch up. Done? Great, welcome back.) This week, I offer a ritual to help welcome the aging pagan or witch...
A Beautiful Crone

Ritual to Celebrate the Crone: Ending Menopause

Crone. Hag. Witch. To modern pagans and wiccans, these are honorifics, not insults. A pagan woman spends her whole lifetime becoming a crone, and by Goddess, she deserves a ritual worthy of that investment! I’ve been planning my Croning for nineteen years, which is all the more amusing considering that...