FILL MY SACK
Words and music by Mark Howard Bowles and David Morgan
Say a little man that lib up the street
Gotta bad habit of givin’ away treats;
Gotta jelly belly and a funny red nose;
Gotta a white beard and funny red clothes;
Lives in a mansion with some deer out back;
Got some midgets workin’ in a big toy shack.
Thought I’d go down and check out the bustle;
Thought that this dude could add to my hustle.
So I put on my bling and knocked on the door
And a voice come out and said, “Whataya here for?”
Said, “I hear you got stuff and, if that be a fact,
All I want you to do is fill up my sack!”
Chorus:
Fill my sack, fill my sack,
Fill my sack, fill my sack.
Bridge:
Don’t you know you can’t live your life
Taking from others and never giving back.
(3 x)
Chorus:
So he opened the door with a twinkle in his eye,
With a “Ho, ho, ho! And to all a good night!”
He said, “If you want stuff and that be a fact,
You gotta take a ride in my big Cadillac.
You can’t be mean and you gotta do good;
Gotta give stuff all over the ‘hood.”
I said, “I can’t do it but I’m watching your back
and just a little later I’ll be filling my sack!”
Chorus:
So he looked me in the eye and he said, “I’m gonna bet
Somebody done told you, ‘just take what you can get’;
Just ‘do unto others ‘fore they do unto you’;
And no such thing as the ‘tried and the true.’
But I’m here to tell you that the more you give away,
The more you’re gonna have on some future day;
If you take and take and you never give back,
You’re gonna end up with some holes in your sack!”
Chorus:
So I took a little ride with the crazy old man
And you know at first I didn’t understand:
DVD’s, TeeVee’s, toys and stuff
And all he ever got was cookies or a hug;
But he made ‘em happy and he shot be ‘tween the eyes
With his very last words that made me realize:
“You know the only problem with wantin’ a lotta stuff?
The big problem is: you can never get enough!”
Bridge:
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