Just One More Bag by Amergin


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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.

Just One More Bag by Amergin
(Tune: Phil Ochs' "No More Songs")

Hello hello hello, is there anybody home
I've only called to say I won it!!
I opened up my bag
And I began to brag
That I won a million bucks

Once I lived outside, using the drugs
Until I got busted for buying
Now the ashes of the dream
can be found in the prison scheme
But now I won a million bucks

I sat within the cell, I helped the prison guard
Then she gave to me a bag of candy
Then they locked it in a safe
Cause the cell is unsafe
And it seems I won a million bucks

The Mars men they were here, they came inside the door
They told me I might be the winner
Then all to my surprise
They took away my prize
And it seems I just get one more bag

A tear was in my eye, as I beat upon the wall
The flesh of my fist smacked loudly
Then a family of five
Won the million prize
And it seems I just get one more bag

Now I'm sitting in my cell, waiting for my prize
A big pound bag of M&Ms
I love the candy shells
As I lie in my prison cell
And it seems I just get one more bag