I wrote a song called The Ballad Of Ervin O. Jones. Here's how it came about:
My daughter and I were walking through a small cemetery right down the street near an old church. We saw his tombstone and it had a picture on it. I wrote the song and about a month later thought I ought to learn the facts.

I met an old man and lady who were working in the yard at the church and asked them if they knew about him. They said they knew his younger brother Curtis (81 years old). They gave me directions to his trailer and I paid him a visit. He was suspicious of me a little bit, as you can imagine, I walked up and said, “this is going to be the strangest visit you’ve had in a while”. I told him I was a songwriter and why I was there. I spent three hours with him, we laughed, and cried and I left feeling like I’d run a marathon. He told me the whole story. The family farmed where a high end Country Club of The South is now. Sold the land in the 50’s.

I played Curtis a song, I had my guitar in my truck, because I wanted to show him I was a songwriter, not sure he believed me at first. He pulled out a 1930’s something, 12 string guitar and showed it to me, it was Ervins. I can’t sing the song without crying. The whole story is true, including how their dad told them about Ervin getting killed. The sad part is, 2 weeks after that battle, they got a letter Ervin wrote saying all was ok, “see ya soon”. Written the day before he died. 2 weeks after that letter came, the telegram came from the Army.

This song is about all the men & woman in America's history who gave it all. God bless us and protect us from Tyranny and give us wisdom and strength to overcome the enemies of freedom.

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