EBBETS FIELD

CHORUS

EBBETS FIELD IN BROOKLYN WHERE THE DODGERS CAME TO PLAY
HELD US ALL TOGETHER LIKE NUNS WE’D PRAY
MAKE THE YANKS LOSE THEIR SWAGGER LET DEM BUMS HAVE THEIR DAY!
BUT YEAR AFTER YEAR THE BRONX BOMBERS BOMBED AWAY!

WE YELLED WAIT TIL’ NEXT YEAR WHEN THE YANKEES WON
AS OUR BELOVED BROOKLYN DODGERS CAME UNDONE
SURE VICTORIES COUNTED BUT OUR HEROES COUNTED MORE
IT’S HOW THEY PLAYED THE GAME AND NOT THE GAME SCORE

THEN CAME THE SEASON OF NINETEEN FIFTY FIVE
THOUGH AGING OUR BROOKLYN DODGERS CAME ALIVE
THEY WON THE N.L. PENNANT GOING AWAY
THEN FACED THE DREADED YANKEES IN WORLD SERIES PLAY

 

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DEM BUMS AND BRONX BOMBERS BATTLED THROUGH THE SEVENTH GAME
OUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED! OUR DODGERS WON ETERNAL FAME
VIN SCULLY THEN AND STILL THE DODGER SPORTSCASTER SAID
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE BROOKLYN DODGERS ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!

 

NO GLORY WAS GREATER NO VICTORY MORE SUBLIME
THIS DODGER TEAM WAS MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME
THE YANKEES LOST THEIR SWAGGER OUR DODGERS HAD THEIR DAY
 EBBETS FIELD AND DEM BUMS LIVE IN OUR MEMORIES TODAY

REPEAT CHORUS

REPEAT LAST LINE OF CHORUS SEVERAL TIMES AND FADE

 

Joe Pickering Jr. Songwriter   Phil Coley Singer and Arranger King of the Road Music BMI Publisher  C2009  www.kingoftheroadmusic.com