Todd Snider – Americas Favorite Pastime (Guitar)
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[Verse 1]
B5 Dock Ellis didn't think he was pitching that day E7 B5 Back in 1970 B5 When he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark E7 B5 A little bit differently E7 B5 So by the time that he hit the bullpen E7 B5 Half the world had melted away E7 B5 That's about the time coach Murtaugh came and said F# B5 Doc, you're pitching today
[Verse 2]
B5 Taking the mound, the ground turned into E7 B5 The icing on a birthday cake B5 That lead off man came up and turned into E7 B5 A dancing rattlesnake E7 B5 The crowd tracked back and forth E7 B5 In waves of color underneath the sun E7 B5 That ball turned into a silver bullet F# B5 His arm into a gun
[Chorus]
E7 B5 I took a look all around the world one time E7 B5 I finally discovered E7 You can't judge a book (Solo)
[Verse 3]
B5 Three up, three down for three straight innings E7 B5 In a zero-zero tie B5 As all those batters names come ringing E7 B5 From a voice out of the sky E7 B5 Hallucinating Halloween scenes E7 B5 Each new swing of the bat E7 B5 His sinker looked like it was falling off a table F# B5 But nobody was hallucinating that
[Chorus]
E7 B5 I took a look all around the world one time E7 B5 I finally discovered E7 You can't judge a book (Solo)
[Verse 4]
B5 By the top of the seventh, he was up one-to-nothing E7 B5 And giving them Padres fits B5 By the bottom of the eighth, he was up two-to-nothing E7 B5 And they still hadn't got any hits E7 B5 With one out left to go in the game E7 B5 The batter looked like a baby child E7 B5 That birthday cake was shaking F# B5 Them waves of color was going wild
[Verse 5]
B5 By the time that he mowed the last man down E7 B5 He was high as he had ever been B5 Laughing to the sounds of the world going around E7 B5 Completely unaware of the win E7 B5 And while the papers would say he was scattered that day E7 B5 He was pretty as a pitcher could be E7 B5 The day Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates F# B5 Threw a no hitter on LSD
[Chorus]
E7 B5 I took a look all around the world one time E7 B5 I finally discovered E7 You can't judge a book (Solo)