Random question, for all three of my readers: so I was listening to Welcome Interstate Managers, b/c I like it, and I was enjoying the song "All Kinds of Time," which made me wonder: how many decent sports songs are there? Aside from surfing songs, that is.
I realize the vast majority of songs are about love and loss, but if I had to have a sports singdown, what would my options be?
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Centerfield by John Fogerty is my favorite. It might also be the only sports song I know. Of course Take me out to the ballgame.
Yeah, that was about all I could think of also. Curious. Though maybe "Fugue for Tin Horns" from "Guys and Dolls" counts b/c it's about horse racing.
Oh, duh. "The Boxer," Simon and Garfunkel.
And I guess the entire book from "Damn Yankees."
Just want you to know that it was your fault, both of you, that I spent 2/3rds of our drive back from Bend to Portland humming snippets of The Boxer. "After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same, after changes we are more or less the same. Lie-la-lie". Thanks for the earworm!
Fortunately (?) as we came down Mt. Hood, that earworm was replaced by the song on the book on CD we listened to. "42 pounds of edible fungus in the wilderness a'growin'" to a gospel beat, courtesy of Robert McCloskey's Homer Price.
Don't ask...
I think I need to.
Sorry re the earworm, Carol. For some reason, I always liked that particular line. That and "I am older than I once was, and younger than I'll be--that's not unusual."
Reminds me of that limerick
There once was a young man from Perth
Who was born on the day of his birth.
He was married, they say, on his wife's wedding day,
And he died when he quitted the earth.
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