The Ballplayer

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Long shot gone, it was a cold day for the losers
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Who came down to Savannah to play for the weekend
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And don't let 'em slip away, boys, 'cause they'll catch you if you ain't lookin'
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Keep your mitts up and your caps down at the ballpark

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She said we were both somethin' back then, had the whole world at our fingers
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and I still remember the day that they called you up for the big show
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And you could have had me still, no but you never do listen
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You were too busy packin' your bags for the big lights, the big city, and Spring

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He said, I thought I was made outta gold, my big games, my big moments
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'til I threw out my shoulder and they sent me back to the farm league
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Yeah, and these days, the best I can do is to keep cold ice on my good arm
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And sometimes it hangs to my side in these late innings

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And all my ramblin' around and all my shameful days
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The biggest mistake that I made was to leave you back in Georgia
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And I'm just a washed up ballplayer at best, but I did keep all of my earnin's
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I still got one good arm to hold ya, and one to pay anyone anywhere you think you might wanna go
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Anywhere you think you might wanna go

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She said it seems so silly now, Lord knows you don't deserve it
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With your lost towns and the highways and young girls and tears
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But I'd give an old man a chance, one more to see just what you're made of
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'Cause you're only as good as the woman who will wait for you after all these years

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She said take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd
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And buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks and I don't care if I ever get back
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For it's root baby root for the home team, if they don't win, it's a shame
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Oh it's one...two...three strikes you're out at the old ball game