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Now, Mamie McShane loved a good baseball game,
And each year she’d wait for them to start,
Her father and mother, he sister and brother,
They knew all the players by heart;
She’d drop her crocheting to find out who’s playing,
When they went…

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Two lovers stroll together, two lovers hand in hand,
Both make a play and steal away down to the moonlit strands
He has the same old story, he makes it sound so new
Then in her ear, he whispers, dear,
I’ve something to say to you
V2
Both…

V1
The grand old game is true to its name,
As they play from year to year,
Home team will win scores are coming in,
Oh how those fans can cheer,
We’re in first place, it’s sure some race,
I wish that you were there
V2
In ev’ry grandstand in…

A crowd of people on the street standing in a line,
To buy a ticket for some fun, they have it ev’ry time.
They laugh and joke at ev’rything, they’re happy as can be when suddenly there come sa hush as someone shouts with glee
Chorus
HERE COMES…

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Madelaine Mooney for baseball was looney
She’d rush to the game ev’ry day,
She’d root like a rooter if things didn’t suit her,
‘Twas awful the things she would say,
Now Bill was her steady, and when he got ready,
To lift up a few to the…

Play ball play ball
Let’s get the game agoin’ with that old familiar call
The pitcher and the catcher and the batters one and all
Play the game play the game oh!
See the happy features of the fans, up in the bleachers
Hear the cheering from the…

V1
A preacher man is coming to our town
To start a revival so grand
Every one invited for miles around to hear the gospel
Oh so grand
Come and join the congregation
And you’ll receive his salvation
Souls that have been lad astray
O how…

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‘Way down in West Beaver, they get baseball fever along about March, as a rule.
The men quit their fishin’ the women start wishin’ and children play hooky from school.
There’s only one thing that they’re talkin’ about.
At mornin’ at night and…

"Featured with great success by Cy Morgan with the World’s Base ball Champions Coombs Bender, Morgan, and Pearl Sisters." V1 Talk about your funny dreams, I head one of them, it seems And it made me feel so goody, goody ‘Twasn’t sad Nothing bad,…

Featured with tremendous success by Mabel Hite and Mike Donlin

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If I’m somewhat hanky panky
O’er a game that’s strickly Yankee
When I have explained myself
You’ll blame me not at all
We as barefoot kids have played it
And the fact should be paraded
There is nothing in it
With our own baseball
I’m as…

"A tribute to our beloved 'Babe' Ruth."

V1 Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad, Just to root for the hometown crew, ev’ry sou Katie blew On a Saturday, her young beau called to see if she’d like to go, To see a show but Miss Kate said “no, I’ll tell you what you…

Chorus
I’ll tell the world, I’ll see ya’ at the (crack) World Sreies
‘Cause that’s where I’m gonna be
And you can bet that even if I have to crawl
I am gonna be there when they yell “Play ball!”
A’ rootin’, hootin’, tootin’ for the home team
If…

V1 I play’d a game of baseball I belong to Casey’s Nine! The crowd was feeling jolly And the weather it was fine A nobler lot of players I think were never found When the omnibuses landed That day upon the ground The game was quickly stared They…

Words for Trio
Hail men of Fordham hail
On to the fray.
Once more our foes assail
In strong array
Once more the old maroon
Wave on high
And sing our battle song
We do or die
Let us cheer wit ha ram! ram! ram for loyalty.
And again with a…

"Featured in the Samuel Goldwyn production starring Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees: The Life of Lou Gehrig." Voice 1 Ev’rything went wrong and the whole day long I’d feel so blue For the longest while I’d forget to smile Then I met you Now…

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Sound the trumpets, sound the trumpets
Billy Sunday’s come to town
Let us meet him, let us greet him praise his name for legends around
He will save us he’s an angel sent down by the Lord
Come let us sing, let the air ring praise him in one…

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Softly the twilight is stealing,
Seven o’clock bells are pealing,
Johnnie with mama is pleading:
“Please may I go and play”
“No dear, it’s nearly your bed time;
Too late for raising old Ned time”
Johnnie’s tears soon were a falling,
When…

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You may talk about the weather if it’s going to rain or shine
Figure on the market and you’re apt to get in line
You may figure on the horses and perhaps you’ll dope them out
But to figure on a ball game is to always be in doubt
V2
You may…

O happy day the Cubs will play at good old Wrigley Field
We’ll all be ther ein the nice fresh air and watch the Cubs play ball
We all are gay on this great day at good old Wrigley Field
We cast away all toil and care, and watch the Cubs play…

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Where do we go from here boys
Quiet boys so you can here
After we’ve had our beer boys
I’ll tell you my Idea
Chorus
Come let’s all take a trip to the ball game gee it’s great
Don’t be late
Go and grab a front seat at the ball game
Have…

True happiness the livelong day, is ours if happiness we give
If we along life’s rugged way make others happy while we live
At nightfall we may well rejoice when counting deeds from early dawn
To find some word or act of ours has helped in…

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Portland’s sons are brave, her daughters fair,
They’re famed in song and story ev’rywhere
In stress of life’s endeavor
You will find them leaders ever,
And crowned with a distinction that is rare
Honors will not let them put away
The…

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Uncle Sam, when you play ball the rules must all be fair:
Your name is in a golden frame for playing on the square.
Uncle Sam, we’ve made a vow since that Pearl harbor raid,
And now it’s up to you to show them how the game is…

"Successfully introduced by those three great ball players Chief Bender, Coombs, and Morgan the heroes of the world series."

V1
So you’re going back where fields are green
And skies are always blue
Well if I could have my wish tonight
I’d be…

Rather brightly
O’er the railroad tracks
O’er the railroad tracks
Come the Gas House fellows
H’er the railroad tracks
In the railroad hacks
In the railroad hacks
Like the Barnum Show and all the circus acts
Hear the bleachers wildly…