Henry K. Lee - The Manna Tease (YouTube audio)

"Henry K. Lee" recorded on youtube, August 2011, our song about the San Francisco Chronicle's great crime reporter - - http://www.itwaslost.org/search/label/Henry%20K.%20Lee

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Henry K. Lee (lyrics & chords)

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Henry Harrison, (unrelated to the president),
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Arrested in Oakland, driving while intoxicated.
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In prison he acted up, flooded his toilet,
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And Harrison was restrained by an over-zealous deputy.
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They tased him to death!
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They tased him to death!
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And the article in the Chronicle
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Was written by Henry K Lee.
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Henry K. Lee, Henry K. Lee,
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The newspaper’s gritty as this naughty city.
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If it’s crime & it’s grimy,
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It’s covered by Henry K. Lee.

April in Alameda, at the animal prison,
A canine jailbreak, Max the Pit Bull’s gone missin’!
They hunted the hound to a motel in Reno,
And his owner Melissa Perry, booked for stolen property.
And they put him to sleep!
They put Max to sleep!
And the article in the Chronicle was written by Henry K. Lee.
Henry K. Lee, &c...

A grade school in Vallejo has secrets in its classrooms.
56-year-old Jerry Johnson taught Special Educations,
His young teenage aide had a developmental disability,
Incapable of consenting, with a child’s mental capacity.
He raped her at school!
He raped her at school!
And the article in the Chronicle was written by Henry K. Lee.
Henry K. Lee, &c...

Over-caffeinated at a coffee shop, I pick up the news,
The Bay Area section has its own special blues,
If I had a dime for each sad crime told daily
By Henry K. Lee, I’d buy me a ukulele.
How do you sleep, Henry?
What are your dreams, Henry?
I worry for you, Henry, & pray you’ll never write about me.

Additional verses:

Kathleen Millikin visited a holistic clinic:
There Edward Feng sold her, quote, “Six God Tablets.”
She suffered an earache and blisters and lesions:
These “Spirit Pills” had arsenic derived from toad poisons.
The doc was a quack,
The doc was a quack.
And the article in the Chronicle was written by Henry K. Lee.