Songs:715 (For Hank Aaron) (135387)
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(Peter Cooper) Well Known Music/SESAC/admin. by BUG Music Dice games ending with the flash of a blade All in the wrists if you want to get paid Daddy sold beer at the Black Cat lounge Sold a little shine until the man came around Little boy walkin’ through a place like that Hitting bottle caps with a broomstick bat Skinny ‘cause there wasn’t much of nothing to eat Walkin’ through the mud ‘cause there wasn’t any street This was Alabama, down the bay Whole world looking off the other way Henry Aaron was looking for a reason to dream In ’47 when a black man signed with a big league team Jim Crow smilin’ while the sun beat down On a sandlot field on the wrong side of town He took it all in stride Striding to the ball Turn of the wrists Crack, jog and touch ‘em all Ten years later, still playing the game Stands full of people screaming his name Won the pennant for the Braves with a four base knock Same day they were rioting in Little Rock Up in old Milwaukee he was MVP Back in Alabama he was still not free Not free to drink a beer in the white folk’s lounge Not free to have a meal in Mobile, downtown Young man rising from the hard hot south Speaking his mind with a bat and not his mouth Holdin’ it inside Striding to the ball Turn of the wrists Crack, jog and touch ‘em all (interlude, where I tell you why I care so much about sports) Dice games ending with the flash of a blade All in the wrists if you want to get paid Daddy sold beer at the Black Cat lounge Sold a little shine until the man came around Little boy walkin’ through a place like that Hitting bottlecaps with a broomstick bat Skinny ‘cause there wasn’t much of nothing to eat Walkin’ through the mud ‘cause there wasn’t any street That was Alabama, down the bay Whole world looking off the other way Henry Aaron was looking for a reason to dream When the dream came true, that’s when the world got really mean He opened up death threats in the mail ‘Cause he was taking a hammer to a great white whale Had no place to hide Striding to the ball Turn of the wrists Crack, jog and touch ‘em all
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