Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Nellie
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Kelly loved baseball games,
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knew the players,
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Her boyfriend by the name of Joe
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said to Coney Isle, dear, let's go.
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Then Nellie started to fret and pout,
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and to him I heard her shout.
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Nellie Kelly was sure some fan,
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she would root just like any man.
wrong all along,
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When the score was
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just two to two,
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Nellie Kelly knew what to do
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Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
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she made the gang sing this song
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Take me out to the ball game,
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take me out with the crowd
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Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks
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I don't care if I never get back
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Let me root, root, root for the home team
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If they don't win it's a shame
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For it's one, two, three strikes
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you're out at the old boat game
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What happened to the poetry
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or to the heart and soul
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ite pastime?
Why can't they see
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how they ab use our idolatry?
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Threats of nine strikes in thirty years
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Insults me to tears
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it's only a game?
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Was it ever just a game in the big league?
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Did they ever understand
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why they were there?
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Because so few are the same
They should listen to the fans
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like they want me to be here
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I'm out of the big league ball game
See ya!
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