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Streets of Portobello

from Archipelago​/​Baby Boot Box by George Engel

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In Puerto Rico
well. I pronounce it like a white-man does,
because I was a white-man once
out in Rio...
Rio "days-of-broken-arrows!"
but Puerto Rico
bitten by a sick mosquito
that turned my skin and eyes to yellow
now playing cello
along the the streets of Portobello
oh... things change so fast
you turn around and you're someone else...and
turn and in a second's flash
your private jet is about to crash
just north of Reno
from Villa Grande Cappuccino
where I was living incognito
with Madonna
"Hold all my calls until mañana."
"Senior, Gambino,
please come and play at our Casino,
and stuff yourself at the canteeno."
..while in the ghetto
it's rice-and-beano's-jalapenos!"
so, I rode a rented mountain bike
high into the country side...and
deep into a village town
where.... it was "all fall down"....
So I wrote a Credo
good liberal, hippie, old Bandido
with rosaries from a bordello
I bought a cello
on the streets of Portobello
on the streets of Portobello
(break)
oh... things change so fast
you turn around and you're someone else...and
turn and in a second's flash
your private jet is about to crash
on my libido
bitten by a sick mosquito
that turned my skin and eyes to yellow
now playing cello
on the streets of Portobello
I'm playing cello
on the streets of Portobello

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from Archipelago​/​Baby Boot Box, released January 7, 2020
Baby Boot Box is:
George Engel
Scott Genereau
Matt Sikorski
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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