Love, War and a Baseball Game – Dan Bern – letras

I decided to go to the ballgame todaySo I jump in the car and get on the freewayBut the night’s real hot and the traffic slowCatch the first three innings on the radioMiss five grand slams, well ain’t that a shameAll’s fair in love and war and a baseball gameComin’ out to the game was such a fine thing to doThat 50,000 other people thought so tooSo I find me a scalper, who can’t be beatTwenty bucks for a front row gold box seatBut the usher says sorry, that’s for yesterday’s gameAll’s fair in love and war and a baseball gameSo I bribe my way in, and I’m glad I’ve been patientI can almost see the field, with some imaginationI drove thru the south side after darkFor a view of the roof of Comiskey ParkThe guy next to me thought he caught me lookin’ at his dameSo he punched me?that’s fair, at the baseball gameA hot dog, some peanuts and a beer or twoThe most balanced meal I ever knewThen some guys says « all right, lemme hear ya now! »And everyone stretches, knockin’ over my chowI almost get thrown out for spillin’ beer on a Frain (that’s the usher)All’s fair in love and war and a baseball gameWell by the time I’m able to turn my attentionTo the players on the field, whom I’ve hardly mentionedI ask my neighbor what’s happened, I missed the last playHe turns to me and says rain delayI wait four hours just to hear the umpire sayThat’s it, go home, no more baseball gameTook me five hours getting the old car back homeWithout gas, but with newly dented chromeJump in bed, and I turn out the lightDream of scalpers and bad bleacher seats all nightI needed plenty of rest, so I could take the sameTrip the very next night, to the baseball gameSee you can spill my beer, or call me dumbGive me the worst seat in the stadiumHit me on the head with a batted ballBut don’t take away my Bill Buckner dollCall me crazy take down my nameAll’s fair in love and war and a baseball game