Todd Snider - Americas favorite pastime

^B5Dock Ellis didn't think he was pitching that day Back in 1^E7970 ^{B5 B5}When he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark A li^E7ttle bit differentl^B5y So by the ^E7time that he hit the ^B5bullpen Half the ^E7world had melted awa^B5y That's a^E7bout the time coach Mur^B5taugh came and said ^F#Doc, you're pitching today^B5

^B5Taking the mound, the ground turned into The i^E7cing on a birthday c^B5ake ^B5That lead off man came up and turned into A danc^E7ing rattlesnak^B5e The c^E7rowd tracked back and f^B5orth In waves of co^E7lor underneath the s^B5un That b^E7all turned into a s^B5ilver bullet His a^F#rm into a gun^B5

I took a l^E7ook all around t^B5he world one time I^E7 finally disc^B5overed ^E7You can't judge a book (Solo)

^B5Three up, three down for three straight innings In a ^E7zero-zero tie^{B5 B5}As all those batters names come ringing From a ^E7voice out of the sk^B5y Ha^E7llucinating Ha^B5lloween scenes ^E7Each new swing of the b^B5at His ^E7sinker looked like it was f^B5alling off a table But n^F#obody was hallucinating that^B5

I took a l^E7ook all around t^B5he world one time I^E7 finally disc^B5overed ^E7You can't judge a book (Solo)

By the ^B5top of the seventh, he was up one-to-nothing And g^E7iving them Padres fi^B5ts B^B5y the bottom of the eighth, he was up two-to-nothing And they st^E7ill hadn't got any hits^B5 With one^E7 out left to g^B5o in the game The batter l^E7ooked like a baby child^B5 That bi^E7rthday cake was sha^B5king Them waves of c^F#olor was going wild ^B5

By the ^B5time that he mowed the last man down He was hi^E7gh as he had ever b^B5een L^B5aughing to the sounds of the world going around Co^E7mpletely unaware of the win^B5 And while the pa^E7pers would say he was sca^B5ttered that day He was pr^E7etty as a pitcher could be^B5 The day D^E7ock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pi^B5rates Threw a no h^F#itter on LSD ^B5

I took a l^E7ook all around t^B5he world one time I^E7 finally disc^B5overed ^E7You can't judge a book (Solo)