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A little story that I want to tell
About a certain band that you know well
An aggregation down in Michigan wit ha leader man by the name of Ben
They started jazzin’ back in ninety two and entertained the folks with music blue
No one has ideas…

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…

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)…

Voice
He carries around a heavy old rifle and a heavy old pack
But doesn’t seem to feel how much they weigh,
‘Cause he carries around this dream all day.
Refrain
1) First class private mary Brown,
She wore that uniform like a million dollar…

V1
Where’s the crowd all going,
Ev’ry one so glad
Ev’ry body’s happy
Can’t find one that’s sad
Street cars they’re all crowded
Shouting (local town) name
Oh! I know just where they’ll go
Street car signs they tell me so
Direct to the Base…

Voice
I’ve sacrificed and bunted my own heart
I laughed with tears in my eyes
After each ending you want a new start
Lover, you can’t realize
Chorus
The game is over,
There’s nothing else we can do
I can’t get to first base with you
We’ve…

V1 You have heard most of the songs of late Ev’ry one likes something up to date All the rage, upon the stage When ever you go to a musical show Sneaky freaky coony drags Old t ime opears changed to rags People swaying, bands a playing Ragtime…

V1
“Now Jimmy Jones,” the teacher said,
You lied just yesterday!
You told me that your Ma was ill,
And home you’d have to stay.
But you went to the game instead,
And just because you lied.
just take your slate and rule,
And stay I nafter…

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…

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…

"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…

V
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…

V1
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…

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…

V
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…

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…

V1
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…

V1
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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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…

"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…

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…

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…

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 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…