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The Song Challenge:   Sometimes I Feel Like Felon, Sometimes I Don't (Hurricane, Utah) - Inmate Brian McCluskey, serving a one-year jail sentence for attempted possession of methaphetamine, believed he had found heaven at the Purgatory Correctional Facility. A bag of M&Ms he earned for helping with chores at the jail was thought to be the million-dollar winner of a national contest.  Deputy Julie Pugmire gave the candy to McCluskey as a reward for helping her pass out commissary items. When he opened the bag, the 27-year-old found candies that were sky blue, white, purple - colors he'd never seen before. Other inmates told him he might have won M&Ms' "Fix-Up the Mix-Up" contest, which they had seen advertised on television.  Sheriff Kirk Smith told The Associated Press that he was sure that the inmate had won the contest. "We're confident he has the bag advertised as the winning bag. It was put in property then given to his wife."  But Mars Inc., said that only one of the bags has a game piece that identifies the winner. The million others get a 16 ounce bag of candy.   The bag was being kept in a safe-deposit box until it was authenticated. The Mars company later said that McCluskey wasn't the Grand Prize Winner after all -- only one of a million First Prize winners -- who only get a free bag of M&M's, not the million dollars McCluskey thought he'd won. 

Easy Come And Easy Go by McGrath of Harlow

Easy come and easy go, 
here in prison life is slow.
Thought for once that I had won -
still when all is said and done,
it's easy come and easy go.

Candy comes in many colours,
mine was mostly blue.
They said I won a million dollars
- things like that ain't true.
Coloured dreams like candy melting,
Dreams of freedom, time worth spending
Dreams of home and happy endings.
Things like that ain't true.

Easy come and easy go, 
here in prison life is slow.
Thought for once that I had won -
still when all is said and done,
it's easy come and easy go.

Win a prize, you keep on winning,
that's so straight and clear,
If I'd won, I'd soon be running,
I'd be out of here.
Clever lawyers turn you loose,
Money is the best excuse,
In the end it's "Free the Juice"
- Yes, I'd be out of here.

Easy come and easy go, 
here in prison life is slow.
Thought for once that I had won -
still when all is said and done,
it's easy come and easy go.

Just a bag of coloured candy, 
guess it makes you fat,
Rots your teeth, so sweet and dandy,
nothing more than that.
Breaks your heart if you just let them,
better still, just go forget them
Guess I wish I'd simply ate them,
nothing more than that.

Easy come and easy go, 
here in prison life is slow.
Thought for once that I had won -
still when all is said and done,
it's easy come and easy go.

© Kevin McGrath 2000

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