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Verse
Baseball time each year is just the same,
Ev’ry one who loves our national game
Gets a thrill, it gets them one and all,
When the umpire cries Play ball.
And no matter who should win the game,
We love it the same.
All our worries…

V1
Murgatroyd Darcy, The belle of Canarsic, went ‘round with a fellow named Rodge
At dancing the rhumba or jitterbug number, you couldn’t beat Rodger at this dodge
Throughout the cold weather the pair danced together,
But when the trees blossomed…

Introduction
Play ball! The Legion call is heard across the land:
Home run! The game is won,
Hey, listen to that band!

Legion Ball is pledged to teamwork,
Win or lose, salute the play;
In our pride we must be humble,
That’s the Legion…

V1
Young Jimmy Croker was clerk for a broker
To be a good clerk was his aim
When ball season started then Jim was light hearted
For baseball was Jim’s middle name boss he would say “My poor Aunt died today”
So his boss said, “For heaven’s sake,…

"Featured on Phillies broadcasts."

V
It’s a hot day today
And what do you say
Let’s go out to the game
It’s a very nice day
And the boss is away
Let’s go out to the game
C
LET’S GO OUT TO THE BALL GAME
Let’s take the afternoon off
It…

V1
It’s a hot day today
And what do you say
Let’s go out to the game
It’s a very nice day
And the boss is away
Let’s go out to the game
C
Let’s go out to the ball game
Let’s take the afternoon off
it looks like a mighty fine game…

V
You say you’re in the dumps
I say there are no humps
That you can’t overrun
Where there’s lots of fun!
Chorus:
Part 1
Let’s have a ball at the ball game
Let’s have a bundle of fun,
And watch those troubles go like bubbles
When the ball…

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…

V1
Mammy dry my tears
I’m so full of fears
I’ve just been scared to death while comin’ home
‘way down de other stret
De white folks dat I meet
Tells me I won’t be living long, and you’ll be all alone
Dey called me choc’late drop
But I begged…

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Little colored child
He’s been running wild
Running all the livelong day
Must be tired out
Must be just about
Ready now to seek the hay
Mammy sits right near
Pickaninny dear
Nothing’s goin’ to harm him, no
Mammy she, her watch will…

Chorus 1
It’s your turn now, I’ll pitch to you
One more strike and you’ll be through
Our LOVE GOES ON LIKE A BALL GAME
2) You had your chance to play it fair
But it seems you didn’t care
OUR LOVES GOES ON LIKE A BALL GAME

You steal around to…

V1
Manda you are a dandy
So all the fellows say
When they see you on the way
To the baseball game
She claps her hands and shouts aloud
That helps to entertain the crowd
When a grand, good play is made.
V2
Maud has no choice in teams,
But…

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…

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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…

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)…

Featured with tremendous success by Mabel Hite and Mike Donlin

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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…

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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
V2
In this world if sinning in this…

V1
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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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…

"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,…

V1
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…

V1
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”…

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…

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…

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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…