Is this folk song old or modern? (Heretic Heart)?

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I am a bold and a Pagan soul


A-ramblin' through this land


I judge the world by my own lights


And I come by my own hand


And if you ask me where I learned


To live so recklessly





My skin, my bones, my Heretic heart


Are my authority





My mother was a singer of tales


My father a dreaming man


And I have swung from the dragon's tongue


And danced on Holy Land


I've sung the seed up out of the ground


And the bird down from the tree





My skin, my bones, my Heretic heart


Are my authority





I once was found but now I'm gone


Away from the "Faithful Fold"


Of those who preach that holiness


Is to do as you are told


Though law and scripture, priest and prayer


Have all instructed me





My skin, my bones, my Heretic heart


Are my authority





Now they tell me Jesus loves me


But I think that he loves in vain


He must go unrequited


On me he has no claim

Is this folk song old or modern? (Heretic Heart)?
I don't know where it originated but I have it on here
Reply:I don't know about its age,but I like it!!
Reply:Sounds like something someone made up fairly recently...possibly to the tune of "Amazing Grace"?

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