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V1 Tessie is a maiden with a sparkling eye Tessie is a maiden with a laugh Tessie doesn’t know the meaning of a sigh Tessie’s lots of fun and full of chaff But sometimes we have a little quarrel, we two Tessie always turns her head away Then it’s p…

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…

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I’m a modern Apollo, a big Irishman,
You should see me when playing base bal
You can hear it for miles as they shout “there’s McCann,”
When I step to the base for a fall
Then I brace up and look at the man in the box,
As I make a big swipe…

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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…

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…

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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…

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

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Last spring we heard some ball fans brag
That the Cards had no chance for the flag
But they cantered along at a merry old gait
And always near top for a rally did wait
When the time came a long came the Braves
Like a good ship gliding o’er…

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

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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…

Voice 1 On the old farm house veranda There sat Silas and Miranda Thinking of the days gone by Said he “Dearie don’t be weary, you were always bright and cheery But a tear dear, dims your eye” Said she, “They’re tears of gladness Silas, they’re not…

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Hey there, pitcher on the mound, start to pitch, don’t fool around
Strike him out, we know you can; you don’t have to walk that man
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Hey there, slugger at the bat, just remember where you’re at
Put one up there in the stand and you’ll get a…

V1 E
Here they come, Gong some, “Montreal” at Bat,
Lucky team, “Full of steam”
Now, take off your hat,
Bet your dough,
Don’t be slow,
For they’re sure to win
Shout “HURRAY”,
HIP, HIP, HEY,
Watch the game begin
V2 E
“Three strikes out”,…

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I’ve a friend named Dan McCloskey and he’s crazy on Base Ball
I told him I could play third base, but sure, I can’t at all
McClosky said his “nine” would play that coming Saturday
and when I heard my name called out
I bought a suit to…

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 “Mammy Why” said Pickaninny, crying to his mammy Jinny “Do the white boys pick on me Tell me why they never let me be And I must not play in their yard, Ain’t I just, as nice as they are They won’t let me in their games And they call me names V2…

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Our team is passing on review, “Boy oy boy” how they came thru
That’s why we’re all here today,
With a hip, hip, hip “hooray”
The flag that we are craving,
Now is proudly waving
Refrain
Our team’s leading the “Hit” parade.
And “oh boy”…

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Don’t wreck your life in an auto
I don’t want an auto guy
I want a man, a base ball man
I’ll tell you the reason why.
I love baseball, the best of all, and want to be a “Fan”
I’d give the word to be your girl
Oh! You baseball man
V2
The…

"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,…

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When Smithie told the widow he was going to the game,
She answered, “take me with you for I feel inclied the same,”
The game was almost ended and the bases were all filled,
The umpire called “two strikes, three balls,” then every thing was…

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While most people welcome the summer I fear
I must say I’m sorry that summer is here,
With me it’s a case of and needles and pins,
When summer comes ‘round my trouble begins,
For as soon as the season of ball games commence,
That husband of…

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On the city highways down the country lanes
I have seen a million children playing at their games
As I watch those kiddies romping in the sun
I wish I could love them all like, I love the one that I call
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In this world if sinning in this…

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Maggie McHugh was a fan, good and true
Who was strong for the home team’s big twirler
Thugh Mag ne’er confessed nearly ev’ry one guessed that she loved this hard hitting crack twirler
There in the stand, with a rose in her hand and a smile in…

Featured with tremendous success by Mabel Hite and Mike Donlin

Move over Babe, here comes Henry, and he’s swinging mean. Move over , Babe, Hank’s hit another; he’ll break that seven fourteen 1) Here’s a man from Alabam “Hamm’rin Henry” is his name. Mister Aaron, “King of Slam,” nailing down his all time fame 2)…

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Just a year a go I met her my Molly, my own,
And I never will forget her for she would grace a throne,
Altho’ she is kind as a girl can be,
Sometimes she seems quite in dif’rent to me,
Tis’ modesty only I plainly can see,
So I sing to her…

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…