(Base-Ball is a Grand Old Game)
A baseball song from 1912
Words and music by Billy Parker and Clarence Gaskill
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
Hurry! Hurry! “Dan”, you’re a baseball fan
Take me out to see the game today
Take me with the boys where they make the noise
Let me root and shout hurray
Buy the tickets “Dan”, that’s a good old man
You’re a good old-fashioned scout
I feel it coming on me
Now I’m goin’ to get right up and shout
Chorus:
Three cheers! Baseball is a grand old game
The bat and the ball are best of all
Gee! Whiz! Ain’t that guy some Pitcher
Hear the umprires shout, “Three strikes” you’re out
Three cheers! For the good old home team
We will win every day the same
Two-one-home-run, ain’t this good fun
Baseball is a grand old game
2. Fanny had a dream, was a funny dream
Dreamed about the baseball game that day
Saw the players there ’round her everywhere
Everything just went her way
Fanny saw the ball when it cleared the wall
Filled her heart with joy all right
She could not wait no longer now
And cried aloud with all her might