How Could I Ever Re-Pay You?

from Archipelago/Baby Boot Box by George Engel

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how could I ever re-pay you?
I'm terribly short on a plan
when Vagas got lucky
we moved to Kentucky
with five hungry kids in the van
you know I'm so full of excuses
financial, ridiculous wreck
If I had a shovel
I'd still be in trouble
'cause I'm buried full up to my neck
and though..
death is the wages of sin, it's true
red's still my color of rage
I'm so freakin' mad
at my communist Dad
I'm still making minimum wage
from who could I ask for a favor?
no chance it would do me much good
I'd use it for whiskey or resting from labor
just like my dead dad said I would

so please, please, tell me the moral here
please, please tell me what's true
while I repeat the story line
then I'll leave it for you....

How could I ever re-pay you?
will something turn tragic again?
like my brother Morrise', who married my niece
and then they drove off with my van!
which I'd only borrowed from Mason
one terrible bulk of a man
and how so it cost 'em when somebody crossed him
like the jungles in North VietNam
and my spiritual life's in foreclosure
though my knees are all bloody from prayer
I dont mean to blame in Jesus' sweet name
But Christ, why is life so unfair?

so please, please, tell me the moral here
please, please tell me what's true
while I repeat the story line, repeat the story line
then I'll leave it for you....

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from Archipelago/Baby Boot Box, released January 7, 2020
Baby Boot Box is:
George Engel
Scott Genereau
Craig Malone
Produced by Scott Genereau for Sling Slang Records

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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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