“Mary Jane” single from Megadeth third studio album “So Far, So Good… So What!” released on January 19th, 1988.
Contrary to popular misconception, this specific song is not about marijuana. Instead, it tells the narrative of a young lady who begins to practise witchcraft. As time passes, she yearns to escape this dark road and resolves to confide in her father. Rather of forgiving Mary Jane her father ruthlessly burys her alive, leaving her soul roaming the forest’s depths.
The song’s lyrics mostly centre on a man who is plagued by a female. Remarkably, the song’s last beat, which acknowledges marijuana, occurs at 4:20. A local tale in Iowa/Minnesota known as the “witch’s grave” served as the inspiration for the song, Mustaine and Ellefson disclosed in 1994 at a performance close to Ellefson’s hometown.
The tombstone in Loon Lake Cemetery, close to Jackson, Minnesota, is purportedly that of Mary Jane Twilegar. A young lady who was apparently murdered in 1881 for witchcraft by the people of Petersburg, Minnesota. Her tomb is said to have been marked with an axe, and anybody daring enough to jump over it three times will meet an early end.
Despite the discovery of an obituary under the name “Mary Jane” that said she passed away from diphtheria, at the time there were no historical accounts of beheadings or witches in the region. After vandalism, the Jackson County Historical Society took Mary Jane’s gravestone out of the cemetery and put it in the Jackson County Police Department.
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