Cooder Ry - 3rd Base, Doger Stadium lyrics

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3rd BASE, DODGER STADIUM<br />

(From the Ry Cooder album, Chavez Ravine [2005]. Sung by Bla Pahinui)<br />

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Mister, you’re a baseball man, as anyone can plainly see.<br />

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The straightest game in this great land. Take a little tip from me.<br />

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I work here nights, parking cars, underneath the moon and stars.<br />

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The same ones that we all knew back in 1952.<br />

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And if you want to know where a local boy like me is coming from:<br />

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3rd base, Dodger Stadium.<br />

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2nd base, right over there. I see grandma in her rocking chair.<br />

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Watching linens flapping in the breeze, and all the fellows choosing up their teams.<br />

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Hand over hand on that Louisville. Crowning the top, king of the hill.<br />

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Mound to home, sixty feet. Baseball been very good to me.<br />

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And if you want to know where a local boy like me is coming from:<br />

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3rd base, Dodger Stadium.<br />

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3rd base, Dodger Stadium.<br />

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Back around the 76 ball, Johnny Greeneyes had his shoeshine stall.<br />

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In the middle of the 1st base line, got my first kiss, Florencia was kind.<br />

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Now, if the dozer hadn’t taken my yard, you’d see the tree with our initials carved.<br />

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So many moments in my memory. Sure was fun, ‘cause the game was free.<br />

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It was free.<br />

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Hey mister, you seem anxious to go. You’ll find that seat, in the 7th row<br />

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Behind home plate, where we used to meet. When we were young, we had dreams.<br />

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Just a place you don’t know, up a road you can’t go.<br />

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Just a thought, laid to rest in my mind, just a time.<br />

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If you care to know where I’m gonna go when I hit my last homerun:<br />

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3rd base, Dodger Stadium.<br />

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3rd base, Dodger Stadium. <br />

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3rd base, Dodger Stadium.<br />

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Hey, Mister, you are a baseball man.<br />

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Yes, I’m a baseball man myself.<br />

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Yes, I’m a baseball man, too.<br />

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Baseball been very good to me.<br />

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Yes, baseball been very good to me.