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Playing Ball |
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| 1 | In that Air Force guard house | |
| 2 | Staring at Nevada snow | |
| 3 | Shipped down from Alaska | |
| 4 | Month before or so | |
| 5 | Thinking of the future | |
| 6 | Playing in my head | |
| 7 | You know that it was for sure | |
| 8 | Where I could have been instead | |
| 9 | Always I was thinking | |
| 10 | Like I'm here to tell you all | |
| 11 | I was standing in that guard house | |
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But I could be playing ball |
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| 13 | Some lucky chances | |
| 14 | Landed in the semi-pros | |
| 15 | I was playing catcher | |
| 16 | I loved it goodness knows | |
| 17 | I controlled the pitcher | |
| 18 | Psyched the batter's steely face | |
| 19 | And the crowd's yell and the dust smell | |
| 20 | And the movement and the pace | |
| 21 | At Bethlehem I was thinking | |
| 22 | Like I'm here to tell you all | |
| 23 | I'm working this here mill shop | |
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But I could be playing ball |
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| 25 | A man does what he's got to | |
| 26 | Sometimes a man's not what he shows | |
| 27 | Pretty wife, pretty twin children | |
| 28 | Well, folks, that's the way it goes | |
| 29 | Working at the steel mill | |
| 30 | Working for my checks | |
| 31 | Writing songs in the evenings | |
| 32 | Buddy, I've got no regrets | |
| 33 | Still you see what I'm thinking | |
| 34 | Like I'm singing it for you all | |
| 35 | Well, I'm doing what I want to | |
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But I could be playing ball |
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© William J. Hall 1998 all rights reserved ASCAP |
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