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Mister Henry Lee

from Works And Days by Michael Tarbox

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MISTER HENRY LEE

He burns like a prophet he gleams like a goat
Got meat in his bonnet, a knot in his rope
He’s covered in coal dust in a house made of tin
He’s shoveling time back into a bin
Mister Henry Lee, Mister Henry Lee!

He leaps from his ladder onto his bed
And ties his prayerbook up with a silver thread
He’s frozen in a gesture of gratitude
In a light beam fixture at the back of the room
Mister Henry Lee, Mister Henry Lee!

Ask for ten he says take eleven
A beautiful soul gets you into heaven
He fades in the dust, happily
Cause the smaller you are,
The freer you’ll be

He had a thousand wives and he’d gloat like a goose
Till an angel of the lord said to cut them loose
He scrawled his poems on the leaves of a tree
And he signed every one
Mr Henry Lee!

He said God is great, God is good
Don’t let him kill you
I think he would if he could
God is great, God is grand
But don’t you shake his fiery hand
Like Mr Henry Lee!

The smaller you are, the freer you’ll be
The smaller you are, the freer you’ll be
Like Henry Lee!

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from Works And Days, released April 9, 2013

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