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Jackson Homer

from Welcome to the Revolution by Kyp Harness

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JACKSON HOMER

Jackson Homer was a farmer
Well-known for miles around
With eighty acres sixteen miles
From the nearest town
And a little farm house left him by his father
Who was a farmer too

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

He was born in that little farmhouse
In eighteen ninety-two
And from that time there was little doubt
About what he was gonna do
“The land is our friend,” he’d say,
“If we treat it the right way, it’ll treat us right too”

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

He married Bessie in ’23
And it was for life
They had their children, one, two, three
And they raised them right
Each Sunday morning in the Baptist Church
They sat in the seventh pew

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

Plant in the springtime, in the autumn harvest,
And in the winter, rest
Jackson Homer, with his family beside him
Did his best to meet each test
When times were good they made it through
When they were bad, they just made do

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

The seasons spun ’round, the children rose up
And went to find their way
And left the farm behind, while Jackson Homer and his wife
Rose to do the chores each day
It was many times said there never was a man
Who could do a job of work like he could do

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

It was shortly after that Bessie fell ill
And woke Jackson up in the night
And when he lost her it was the only time
Anybody’d seen Jackson Homer cry
Some people claimed that he never was the same
But still there was work to do

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

The days rolled by, the airplane flew
And the years they took their toll
The fields went fallow on Jackson’s farm,
People said he was gettin’ kinda slow
Just leaned on the fencepost, looked out to the pasture
To where the little sparrows flew

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

A silence settled upon these parts
When Jackson Homer died
Seemed like the whole town came around
Just to say good-bye
As six young grandsons picked up the handles
And took him out ’neath the sky of blue

And all I need is a patch of ground
And six good men to lay me down

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from Welcome to the Revolution, released September 2, 2014

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