[00:00:00] Leon McDuff - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
[00:00:00] Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
[00:00:03] I come before you to plead for the life of Leon McDuff
[00:00:08] Ladies and gentlemen on the jury
[00:00:11] I asking you to be the judge of when enough is enough
[00:00:19] Now Leon McDuff has worked on his daddy's farm
[00:00:23] Everyday since the day that he was born
[00:00:26] Plowing in the fields and hoeing in the garden
[00:00:30] And helping pick the cotton and the corn
[00:00:34] Then came the time of the Mississippi floods
[00:00:37] And all of his work went down the drain
[00:00:40] The land was parched by the sun and blown
[00:00:43] By the wind and finally washed away by the rain
[00:00:47] So he went to his friends to get some help from them
[00:00:51] But their crops and their money was all gone
[00:00:54] So he went to the bank to mortgage his home
[00:00:58] But the bank wouldn't give Leon a loan
[00:01:02] He could not decide how his family would survive
[00:01:05] With no crops and no money to buy food
[00:01:09] And as he struggled with his hands to rework his land
[00:01:12] The notice came that said his land tax was due
[00:01:16] Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
[00:01:19] I come before you to plead for the life of Leon McDuff
[00:01:28] Now in an air-conditioned office on the other side of town
[00:01:31] Sat a government official with a frown
[00:01:35] 'Cause he'd been trying for so long to find land to build
[00:01:38] A summer home but cheap river land could not be found
[00:01:42] Then in the middle of his gloom his boss walked
[00:01:45] In the room and said I've got some real good news
[00:01:47] For the house you've planned
[00:01:49] There's a farmer who's so poor and who's luck has run
[00:01:52] So sour that he can not pay the taxes on his land
[00:01:56] So just you wait a week or two 'til the money's over due
[00:02:00] Then go to the cashier down the hall
[00:02:04] With his deed in your hand pay the taxes on the land
[00:02:07] Have the sheriff give Leon McDuff a call
[00:02:11] Have him tell Leon to move by the last day of July
[00:02:15] Because the taxes on his land are overdue
[00:02:18] Tell him he has to move away
[00:02:20] 'Cause the taxes were not paid
[00:02:22] Then all his river land belongs to you
[00:02:29] Now in that air-conditioned office in about a week
[00:02:31] Or two came the sheriff saying I've got some bad news
[00:02:36] That Leon McDuff says he's had some bad luck
[00:02:39] And he'll try to get the money but he ain't agonna' move
[00:02:43] That official he jumped up and grabbed
[00:02:46] The sheriff by the arm he said
[00:02:47] We're going down to take that land today
[00:02:51] So he and the sheriff drove down to Leon's farm
[00:02:55] To tell the McDuffs to move away
[00:02:58] There stood Leon on his land with a shotgun in his hand
[00:03:01] His eyes narrowed 'neath the brim of his hat
[00:03:05] He said "I've worked hard on this land as a boy
[00:03:08] And as a man I ain't gonna lose it
[00:03:10] To no god damned bureaucrat "
[00:03:12] Well that bureaucrat got mad and grabbed
[00:03:15] The gun in Leon's hand and in the struggle
[00:03:17] An explosion cracked the air
[00:03:20] And when the smoke and dust had cleared
[00:03:22] And the ringing left their ears the sheriff lay
[00:03:25] A dying on the ground
[00:03:27] The sheriff lay a dying on the ground
[00:03:45] Now on this table I will lay this gun "Exhibit A"
[00:03:49] With two sets of fingerprints as you can see
[00:03:53] But other hands were here unperceived by eye
[00:03:56] Or ear that helped trigger off this awful tragedy
[00:04:00] Now to me its still unclear just
[00:04:02] What really caused the problem here
[00:04:04] There's much too much we've got to know
[00:04:06] Before we know enough
[00:04:07] So we can't find out today where all the guilt
[00:04:10] Should lay but it shouldn't be on Leon McDuff
[00:04:15] Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
[00:04:18] I come before you to plead for the life of Leon McDuff
[00:04:23] Ladies and gentlemen on the jury
[00:04:27] I asking you to be the judge of when enough is enough
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