On the twenty-third of February
In the year two-double-ott-seven
About eighty people paid three bills each
To watch the eight remaining innings of heaven
An old kinescope made to show the soldiers
What was then in the present tense
Something that's
"... never happened in World Series history, and hasn't happened since."
By then it had been over fifty years
Since the great event was taped
Some guy I guess found the film in an unmarked cannister
At a flea market on the cape
I spose he paid about two-fifty for that slice of history
Through sheer luck and chance
Of what's
"... never happened in World Series history, and hasn't happened since."
I'm sure some of you don't know all there is to know
Of that October game in fifty-six
How Larsen threw baseballs to just twenty-seven batters
And Yogi called every pitch
To Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella
And Hodges' liner to Mantle still makes me wince
Somethng that's never happened in World Series history
And hasn't happened since
There's only eight innings left to posterity
I guess no one's got all nine
And they said "Look at how fast the game went then!
There's so few ads and talk! No ticker line!"
And Yogi said of Vin Scully and Mel Allen the announcers
"If they didn't have anything to say, they didn't say it."
And I guess that kinda makes sense
"It's never happened in World Series history, and hasn't happened since."
It's like Yogi said you know...
"It's never happened in World Series history, and hasn't happened since."
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©2007, Charlie Cheney