A New Song for Jayne
This is the new song that the Canton mudders wrote after Jayne's visit.
Jayne! The man they call Jayne!
Oh he robbed from the rich
And gave to the poor,
Stood up to the man
And gave him what for.
Our love for him now ain't hard to explain
The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.
Our Jayne came to speak to the mudders,
"You had a short stick given you.
You took it, and that's really something."
That's what he said, an' it's true.
But the Magistrate had himself a prisoner,
A man who was warped and insane,
"Stitch, do this for me and I'll let you go free,
Tell some lies and then shoot me down Jayne."
Then John Lee stood up as a hero,
Our own hero from Canton town
Took the bullets for Jayne and because of his pain
He bought Jayne time to cut the snake down.
"It takes less of a man to dump money
Than to lay down his life for a friend,"
So the man they called Jayne pushed his statue to the plain
And went off to the stars again.
Oh he robbed from the rich
And gave to the poor,
Stood up to the man
And gave him what for.
Now we got a new statue, ain't hard to explain:
The hero of Canton, the man who saved Jayne.
