V1 A little maden climbed an old man’s knee Begged for a story “Do Uneje please,” Why are you single, why live alone! Have you no babies, have you no home? I had a sweetheart, years, years ago; Where she is now pet, you will soon know List to the…
"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…
"Introduced by Eddie Foy in the musical comedy 'The Orchid'."
Voice 1
In a Restaurant the other night, the best one in New York
I saw a man who vainly tried to eat soup with a fork
My heart went out in pity
Ev’ry time his form would plunge
He…
V1
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…
What is the game that every body raves so much about
Baseball Baseball
What is the game that all the papers write so much about,
Baseball Baseball
The little boys will run away from school to see the gae,
Altho’ it isn’t really right you know…
1) Jimmy liked to play base ball,
And catch it on the fly,
(others) And catch it on the fly.
But much to his surprise one day
He caught it in the eye,
(others) He caught it in the eye.
2) He was proud behind the bat,
Sometimes to play or…
V1 When I first gaz’d into your eyes Your image made a home run to my heart I tried to tag the feeling which into my heart was steeling But it had too great a start I thought ‘twas just a base hit that you made And you’d be caught in stealing second…
V1
In nineteen thirty nine a man with vision in a town called Williamsport V. A.
Created from the grand old game of baseball,
The little league that carries on today
V2
When Carl Stotz played baseball as a youngster,
Older boys said, “you’re…
Baseball, Baseball,
America’s favorite game.
Where thousands will gather and work up a lather, but each day they play it the same.
1) Where a player is cheered if he catches a fly,
But he’s certainly booed if he lets it go by.
2) Where a fly is…
V1
I met a lad handsome and witty who whispered to me you are so pretty.
Soon he and I were cabaretting, we had a good time, goes without saying.
He came to my house all the lights were low.
And then he held me close, set my heart a glow.
He…
Chorus
Ev’rybody’s goin’ to the baseball game, the baseball game, the baseball game.
Ev’rybody’s gon’ to the baseball game, BATTER UP, BATTER UP, PLAY BALL!
Ev’rybody hollers: “Hit that ball, hit that ball over the wall.”
Ev’rybody hollers: “Hit…
V1
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…
V
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…
V1
‘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…
The world is full of many things, that science can’t explain:
And one of these, is the disease, that’s slately hit the brain:
IT used to be insanity,
But at the present day,
But anybody’s crazy in the head, the doctors say:
It’s only (chorus?)…
V1
At a ball game you will see him
Perched upon the bleacher high,
Where the sun beats down upon his brain,
There’s a wild look in his eye.
When he came in through the gate,
He had a mild and modest air;
When the bell rang “play ball”
He…
V1
Deacon Jones addressed the congregation
Said “The roof lets in the rain,
And folks that am an aggravation to Rev’rend Jackson Smith that’s plain;
Now I propose good sisters and brothers we raise some funds to shingle up the leak,
A ball game…
Voice Casey’s the guy with his eye on the ball (whistle) But mostly the ladies Casey’s the guy who’s the Idol of all (Whistle) But mostly the Indies CASEY is mighty and manly Casey’s a dangerous gent When he goes to bat hang on to your hat He’s…
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…
V1
Sweet mammie Magee was a young coryphee
And she danced in the chorus by night:
The Mamie by day was a “fan” in her way,
For a ballgame was Mamie’s delight
She’d root through a game and then send in her name
And invite them all down to her…
V1
Little Freddie McCann was a great baseball fan,
And he knew ev’ry play thru and thru.
When he called up sweet Molly, a nice little dolly,
One Sunday at half past two,
She said “Dear, let us go to the park for a row,
And spoon’neath a big…
Solo
Ev’ry college, ev’ry place in the U.S.A.
Chorus
Has a base ball nine,
Has a base ball nine,
Solo
And the game is fine,
It’s simply great,
It’s the only game that’s up to date.
Chorus
Base ball, base ball,
It’s the only Nat’nal…
V1
Tom Jones left his wife in the houses one night
And he started out for a walk
He met a pretty little blond
And with her began to talk talk talk
He took her into a sweet café
Ordered wine for the lady fair
He was making love when he looked…