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Not THAT Marilyn.

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Dear Marilyn

oh my
patron saint, couldn't you have saved poor Marilyn ?
instead of spending time, drinking new wine in Palestine
If the Gaza Strip were just a bar in old Jerusalem
you'd have found me there too, and drowning in some beers,
shedding bloody tears
hanging with the Jews

so we
rolled her up, under all the cover of the government
and there was Henry Lee, Nugochi there and me, so maybe there were three
then I sat and watched as they stood and argued over measurements
then I tagged her toe, not many people know,
importance of the toe
and the writing on the tag...

hands full of sleeping drugs
so ...you think...suicide
I'm the one that cleaned the blood
believe it was a 45!
but now that the truth's been sold
buried with an olive stone
somewhere on a grassy knoll
Marilyn is home!

you say, pardon me
but what's the big deal about Marilyn?
life magazine, where Martin Luther King taught my mother how to sing
about the motorcade, about the gapping toll that the bullet made
but more than just that
if I'm going back
I'm going back black
and never going back

there on the cattle farm
probed me with a cattle prod
broke my every leg and arm
whipped me with a pistol rod
enemies are stalking me
while angels sing Elvis songs
killed on the balcony
laid me on a bed of thorns

oh my
patron saint, couldn't you have saved poor Marilyn ?
instead of spending time, drinking new wine in Palestine
If the Gaza Strip were just a bar in old Jerusalem
you'd have found me there too, and drowning in some beers,
shedding bloody tears
hanging with the Jews

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from Academic​/​Baby Boot Box, track released December 31, 2019

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George Engel Hartford, Connecticut

George Engel, a singer/songwriter and for MANY years the owner and operator of Connecticut local music label, Sling Slang Records, has recorded his own songs with his bands, Baby Boot Box and George Engel and the Wedding Band.

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