The Hottest Game |
LyricsTHE HOTTEST GAME (CHORUS) WAY, WAY BACK IN EIGHTEEN NINETY-FOUR BOSTON PLAYED THE HOTTEST GAME WITH BALTIMORE BALTIMORE THE DAY BEFORE BEAT BEANTOWN BAD THE CROWD GOT FIRED UP THEY TURNED RED-HOT MAD BECAUSE OF THIS GAME, BEANTOWN WENT UP IN SMOKE SOME SAY IT ALL STARTED BECAUSE OF A POKE JOHN McGRAW AND FOG HORN TUCKER HAD A FIGHT THEY TRADED LOTS OF PUNCHES LEFT AND RIGHT BOTH DUGOUTS CLEARED, EVEN THE FANS BATTLED A FIRE WAS SET ALL SHOULD HAVE SKIDADDLED! WHILE THE BLAZE WARMED SEATS NEAR THE RIGHT FIELD WALL ALL THE GRAND STAND CHANTED PLAY BALL! PLAY BALL! (REPEAT CHORUS) NO ONE RANG THE ALARM THE FIRE WAS THOUGHT TOO SMALL UNTIL THE FLAMES SPREAD OUTSIDE THE RIGHT FIELD WALL WILL THEY PLAY THE GAME ONE FAN WOULD STILL SAY? THE FLAMES ROARED GAMES OFF, BECAUSE OF FIRE TODAY THE HOMES AND SHOPS ALL OF WOODEN FRAMES AND THE SIX SPIRE GRAND STAND WERE SOON IN FLAMES THE FIRE GRAND SLAMMED THROUGH THE POOR PART OF TOWN TWO THOUSAND HOMELESS, TWO HUNDRED DWELLINGS DOWN (REPEAT CHORUS) ALL THE FANS WENT HOME TO HOMES THAT NIGHT FOR THE NEWLY HOMELESS, NO HOMES WERE IN SIGHT THE NEXT DAY THE NEWS READ GAME REPLAYED THURSDAY BUT WHERE DID THE HOMELESS GO? IT DIDN?T SAY (REPEAT LAST TWO LINES AND FADE) Written by Joe Pickering, Jr. Joe Pickering, Jr., President King of the Road Music 13 Pond Street Bangor, ME 04401 1-207-947-3525 C2001 |
| Song Length: 3:18 |
| Primary Genre: Country-Contemporary |
| Secondary Genre: - |