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Getting on Base
Songwriters continued to seek the success enjoyed by the creators of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." It seemed as if the way to a woman's heart could only be by getting on base with such songs as "I Can't Get to First Base with You" [image 1] and "If You Can't Make a Hit in the Ball Game, You Can't Make a Hit with Me." [image 2]
"I've sacrificed and bunted my heart . . .
The game is over, there's nothing else we can do,
I can't get to first base with you."
"Poor May almost fainted when she heard these words so clear:
Strike one! Strike two! Strike three! The Batter's out!
Then Dan heard May Ann in frenzy shout:
If you can't make a hit in the ball game you can't make a hit with me."
Fred Fisher and Mrs. Lou Gehrig. "I Can't Get to First Base with You." New York: Fred Fisher Music Co., 1935. |