Key: G major•
Verse 1
G
Em
G
Em
I used
C
G
I used to want to play
winner someday
We played on the sand lots
Em
G
and the gravel schoolyards
D
G
Em
with the same bluey car
You need a little seasonin' play,
G
C
We'll give you a chance
to show
D
G
how much you wanna play
D
G
Em
G
they couldn't hit a thing I had
Em
Bm
G
I was do ing really well
I was in the rotation,
I threw a two -hitter,
Em
G
you oughta heard people shout
D
G
Em
Korean War broke out
B
G
I didn't have any plan
I went and joined the Air Force,
I pitched for the squadron,
Em
G
then we toured all the camps
D
G
we were all Far East champs
A
D
For six feet tall and lean,
I was just seventeen
D
G
Em
G
they couldn't hit a thing I had
Em
C
G
the day MacArthur got fired
The book going down like ten pins
The bottom of the seventh
Em
G
throwing easy as can be
D
G
Em
and that was all she wrote for me
C
G
and I moved back down here
Married a fine woman
We had us a young son
G
C
B
And the first time he asked
C
D
G
I taught him everything I know
A
D
For six feet tall and lean
He's just seventeen
D
G
People say he takes after his dad
Thank you
D
A
Thanks very much
I didn't write any campaign songs
back in 88
G
A
Nobody switched me on enough
to cause me to do that
G
And besides, I had already my generic campaign song,
which I wrote years ago, to be able to sing in
state, local, 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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