My Favorite Spring
My Favorite Spring

My Favorite Spring easy guitar chords by Tom Paxton

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    • Verse 1
    I 
    used 

    to play baseball, 

    I 
    used 
    to want 
    to 
    play 

    People 
    all 
    said I 
    had 
    to be a 

    winner someday 

    We 
    played 
    on the 
    sand lots 

    and 
    the 
    gravel 
    school
    yards 

    I 
    once 
    had 
    a tryout 

    with the 
    same 
    bluey 
    car 

    The 
    Cardinals 
    said, 
    young 'un, 

    we 
    sure like 
    your arm 

    We 
    believe you 
    can 
    make it, 

    we'll send 
    you 
    down 
    to the farm 

    You 
    need 
    a little seasonin' 
    play, 

    a little 
    double -A 

    We'll 
    give 
    you a 
    chance 

    to 
    show 

    how 
    much 
    you wanna 
    play 

    And that 
    was my 
    favorite 
    spring, 

    I 
    could do 
    anything 

    For 
    six feet 
    tall and 
    lean, 

    I 
    was just 
    seventeen 

    My 
    fastball 
    was nothing but 
    smoke, 

    my 
    curveball 
    snapped and 
    broke 

    My 
    change had 
    made them look 
    bad, 

    they couldn't hit 
    a thing I 
    had 


    I 
    was 
    pitching 
    down in 
    Houston, 

    I was 
    do
    ing 
    really 
    well 

    I 
    was 
    in the 
    rotation, 

    I was 
    givin' 
    them 
    hell 

    I 
    threw a 
    two 
    -hitter, 

    you oughta 
    heard 
    people 
    shout 

    The 
    very 
    next morning, 

    Korean 
    War 
    broke 
    out 

    On 
    the 
    spur of 
    the moment, 

    I didn't 
    have 
    any 
    plan 

    I 
    went and 
    joined the 
    Air Force, 

    I wound 
    up 
    in Japan 

    I 
    pitched for 
    the 
    squadron, 

    then we 
    toured all 
    the camps 

    We 
    didn't 
    have 
    any problems, 

    we were all 
    Far East 
    champs 

    An
    d 
    that was my 
    favorite 
    strength, 

    I 
    could do 
    anything 

    For 
    six feet 
    tall and 
    lean, 

    I 
    was 
    just seventeen 

    My 
    fastball 
    wasn't nothing but 
    smoke, 

    my 
    curveball 
    snapped and 
    broke 

    My 
    change that 
    made them look 
    bad, 

    they 
    couldn't hit 
    a thing I 
    had 


    I 
    was 
    throwing 
    on no 
    hitter 

    the day MacAr
    thur 
    got fired 

    The 
    book 
    going down 
    like 
    ten 
    pins 

    really 
    had him wired 

    The 
    bottom of 
    the seventh 

    throwing 
    easy 
    as can 
    be 

    Something 
    snapped 
    in my 
    shoulder 

    and that 
    was all 
    she wrote 
    for 
    me 

    So 
    I 
    fetched 
    up a 
    service 

    and 
    I 
    moved back 
    down 
    here 

    Married 
    a fine 
    woman 

    and 
    I 
    found 
    a new career 

    We 
    had 
    us a young 
    son 

    and we 
    watched Jimmy 
    grow 

    And 
    the 
    first time 
    he asked 

    I 
    taught him 
    everything 
    I 
    know 

    An
    d this 
    is my 
    favorite 
    strength 

    He 
    can do 
    anything 

    For 
    six feet 
    tall and 
    lean 

    He's 
    just 
    seventeen 

    His 
    fastball 
    gives him the 
    shakes 

    His 
    curveball 
    snaps and 
    breaks 

    His 
    change, 
    it makes him look 
    bad 

    People 
    say he 
    takes after 
    his 
    dad 

    Thank you 

    Thanks 
    very much 

    I 
    didn't write any campaign 
    songs 

    back in 88 

    Nobody switched 
    me on 
    enough 

    to 
    cause 
    me to do that 

    And besides, 
    I had 
    already my 
    generic campaign 
    song, 

    which I wrote 
    years 
    ago, to be able to 
    sing in 

    any kind 
    of election campaign, 

    state, loc
    al, federal, 
    it 
    didn't matter. 

    And it 
    was designed 
    for that, frankly, 

    because I 
    reached a 
    point back there 

    about 10 
    years or so ago 

    when I got 
    a little fed up with writing 

    songs 

    for my 
    kind of presidential 
    candidates 

    who 
    were invariably 
    out 

    of money 

    and out of the 
    race by the Iowa 
    caucus, 

    leaving 
    me stranded 
    with 

    a song 

    and no one for whom 
    to sing it. 

    And I just, I 
    don't know, I just thought 
    to myself, 

    I got 
    to get a little less 
    specific 

    with 
    these things. 

    General principles, 

    I said, that's 
    what I'll do. 

    I will 
    write an 
    all -encompassing, 

    all -embracing 
    political 
    song 

    which I can always 
    do. 

    And the way 
    I'll do that, I said, 

    it's going to take some 
    broad strokes. 

    I'll 
    have to plumb 
    down there 

    to the 
    depth of bedrock 

    of American 
    political thought 

    and 
    get down there to 
    the very heart 
    and soul, 


    the root and 
    branch 

    of 
    American political 
    philosophy, 

    where 
    I found absolutely 

    nothing. 

    Came back up, 

    wrote a superficial 
    whiz, 

    which has 
    been working just fine 

    for about, as 
    I 
    say, about 10 years. 


    Now, of course, I 
    do always 
    hesitate 
    to sing 
    the song in 
    California, 


    where I know that politics 

    had generally 
    conducted 

    on 
    a much loftier 
    moral 
    plane 

    than most 
    others. 

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