Hero of Canton Returns (Patreon)

I have a new song! I wrote it a few weeks back when Mikey Mason and I recorded the Jaynestown episode of In the Verse. 

The story answers the question that the Jayne lamented at the end of the episode when he said, “They’re probably putting that statue back up.“

The music I wrote at the California Autoharp Gathering. I was hearing a lot of blues. Then I went to a workshop taught by  Karen Mueller. She taught us “free falling” by Tom Petty. That’s what inspired the Jam rhythm. 

Jayne, Our hero returns, Jayne

You heard about the hero of canton

May have even heard that Jayne came back

He’s a man who’s all heart. And it tears him apart. 

 To hurt someone even if his soul is black

But the man on the hill is a demon

Dismembers our limbs in the mud

Jayne heard our screams of pain, flew back to Canton

To face down the magistrate with blood 

He snubbed them and robbed them and gave to the poor

They tried to shoot him down, but he came back for more

There ain’t no statue that’ll judicate his fame

When the hero returns... When the hero returns!

Ol’ Higgins thought that he could deceive us

Dressed a prod up as an old friend 

Jayne saw the disguise, raised his knife to the skies

That prod never knew what hit him 

Then He said now listen up mudders, 

We’re the same, you and me, my muddy kin

Ye gotta stand together, face all kinds of weather

Then sailed off to the stars once again