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Lenny
Kent Agee/George M Green

Lenny’s in jail with his dagger tattoo
He’s missing his baby, he’s missing a tooth
The camera caught him as he slipped out the door
Stealing some milk from the grocery store
Lenny was raised by his grandfather’s hand
He learned the hard lessons about being a man
Don’t swallow no handouts, don’t swallow your pride
Take care of your family and keep them alive

Draw a line down the page,. make a list, black and white
One column for wrong and one column for right
And in our wise judgment how will we decide
On which side to write down “the will to survive”

The judge says to Lenny as he stands in his court
My memory is long but my patience is short
Three times before me for the very same crime
Now you’re going to prison for a very long time
Lenny writes letters to his eight-year-old girl
He says, “You’re too young to know the ways of the world
This land stands for justice and the right to be free
It stands for the rich man but it won’t stand for me”

(chorus)
We read in the papers and see on the news
Junk-bonds and millionaires play fast and loose
In a land of free enterprise is it a crime
That Lenny’s wife waits in the soup-kitchen line

Now it’s ten years later and nothing’s much changed
‘Cause poverty’s stronger that shackles and chains
Lenny’s young daughter, she has a daughter herself
It’s a wheel in a wheel and it turns on itself
And nobody leaves ‘cause there’s nowhere to go
We keep our distance and let the cameras roll
While Lenny’s life runs out, a red stain in the dirt
Shot in the back by a grocery-store clerk

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from Fields and Fences, released February 20, 2014

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Kent Agee Nashville, Tennessee

First known in Nashville as the creator and lead-singer of Warner rock act, Jane His Wife, Kent Agee has become recognized as one of the most versatile writers in the music industry. With cuts by acts as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Jon Pardi, Vanessa Williams, Tom Keifer, Rodney Atkins, Evan & Jaron and Del McCoury to name a few. ... more

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