Jackson Merryweather

[Verse 1]
Richmond Virginia
The story starts
1848 on the Ides of March
Jackson Merryweather
Born into the tether
To work the land and never live to see a dime

[Verse 2]
He had a better plan
To be a Union man
To make a run across that Mason-Dixon line
He heard tale about
A railway underground
Running through the night and always northern bound

[Chorus]
When I go I'll die a free man
In a place I belong
Virginia falling, Pennsylvania you are calling me home
Go on home

[Verse 3]
On the day he left the South
Is when the war broke out
Joined the 25th and shut the rebels down
Marched across the land
With those who took a stand
That no ones got the right to own their fellow man

[Verse 4]
Spring of '65
Came back to start a life
Work on his own time and learn to live again
He became a father
Scranton's finest barber
Make his way out from the way that he came in

[Chorus]
When I go I'll die a free man
In a place where I belong
Virginia falling, Pennsylvania you are calling me home
Go on home

[Verse 5]
Jackson Merryweather
His story told forever
The way you're born is never how you have to die
You can find him still
Laid down in forest hill
You can hear him in the wind that shakes the pines

[Chorus]
When I go I'll die a free man
In a place where I belong
Virginia falling, Pennsylvania you are calling me home
Go on home