Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn

Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn

V1 Say, did you hear the news about what’s happenin’ in Brooklyn? We really got the blues about what’s happenin’ in Brooklyn It ain’t official yet We hope official it don’t get But beware my friend, and let me warn ya, they’re think’ a taink’ the Bums to California Refrain Let’s keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn A house is not a home without some love Don’t let them leave our premises, L.A. wwould be their nemises, ‘cause Brooklyn fits the Dodgers like a glove Patter 1 Mister Walter O’Malley, we always called you “pally,” we stuck with you through thick and thin But if you take away the Dodgers, gys like Campy, Newk and Hodges We ain’t your pal so more the way we been Patter 2 We offer our bridges. You can take ‘em wid yer, we have a couple we could spare But we’d all feel so glum wid’out the Duke and Gilliam, We’d need one left to jump off in despair Patter 3 Our Prospect Park iss pretty, the pride of or great city, but offer it we gladly do; But until when Kingdom comes, please leave us wid our bums O’Malley that’s all we want from you Another bridge thing? Like a pair of socks that’s holey widout Jackson and Cimoli, Like a bed widout Oskine and Furillo, Like a ship widout a harbor widout Podres and the Barber Like the sun when it don’t shine widout Zimmer and Labine Like the boids without a bee widout Alston and Pewee And here I am a poet and I didn’t even know it So send the Phils to Trenton, the Giats to St. Paul, but keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, the greatest borough of all So let’s keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn You’ve heard our plea, at last we had our say Your mind is in a fog, if you take them to that smog Leave the Dodgers in Brooklyn in, U.S.A. We really love ‘em, Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Sam Denoff, Bill Persky (words), Ted Berkman (music)

1942