You Better Play Ball With Me

You Better Play Ball With Me

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Something tells me, compels me to tell you that you’re swell, and yet
You play so hard to get it’s so unfair
Tho’ I try, tell me why I’m not getting any place with you,
Can’t get to “first base” with you so if you really care
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Oh! You better “play ball” with me
Honey, please don’t say you won’t
Aw! Come on be nice, make a “sacrifice,”
I’ll be “put out” if you don’t.
Oh! You better “play ball “with me,
“Take a walk” now, what d’ya say?
There’s so much at stake, give my heart a break,
We can make a “double play.”
Can you picture me throwing you kisses
When the morning train is due?
And when day is done if it’s raining,
Hon’ I’ll come “sliding home” to you
Oh! You better “play ball” with me
What a “manager” you could be,
Let’s give love a “clout,”
Honey, don’t “Hold out,”
You better “play ball” with me!

Charlie Tobias, Carmen Lombardo, John Jacob Leob

1936