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Date Posted: 22:10:30 10/07/03 Tue
Author: blues even
Subject: Re: Do they play the bues in Chicago?
In reply to: Crystal 's message, "Do they play the bues in Chicago?" on 22:05:53 10/07/03 Tue

>A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
>By Steve Goodman
>
>By the shores of old Lake Michigan
>Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold
>An old Cub fan lay dying
>In his midnight hour that tolled
>Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
>They knew his time was short
>And on his head they put this bright blue cap from his
>all-time favorite sport
>
>He told them,
>"It's late and it's getting dark in here
>And I know it's time to go
>But before I leave the line-up
>Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know"
>
>Do they still play the blues in Chicago
>When baseball season rolls around?
>When the snow melts away,
>Do the Cubbies still play
>In their ivy covered burial ground?
>When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
>But now they only bring fatigue
>To the home of the brave
>The land of the free
>And the doormat of the National League
>
>Told his friends
>"You know the law of averages says:
>Anything will happen that can."
>That's what it says.
>"But the last time the Cubs won a National League
>pennant
>Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"
>
>The Cubs made me a criminal
>Sent me down a wayward path
>They stole my youth from me
>(that's the truth)
>I'd forsake my teachers
>To go sit in the bleachers
>In flagrant truancy
>and then one thing led to another
>and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
>football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
>But what do you expect,
>When you raise up a young boys hopes
>And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.
> Year after year after year after year,
>after year, after year, after year, after year
>'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn for the
>pigeons beneath the 'EL' tracks to eat
>
>He said "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field,
>anymore before my eternal rest
>So, if you have your pencils and your scorecards
>ready, and I'll read you my last request"
>
>He said, "Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley
>Field
>On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
>Have the organ play the National Anthem
>and then a little "na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey,
>Goodbye"
>Make six bullpen pitchers carry my coffin and six
>ground keepers clear my path
>Have the umpires bark me out at every base
>In all their holy wrath
>Its a beautiful day for a funeral,
>Hey Ernie lets play two!
>Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
>and conduct just one more interview
>Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the
>field,
>Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
>Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
>And I'll be ready to die
>
>Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville
>Sluggers baseball bats,
>And toss my coffin in
>Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
>From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind
>When my last remains go flying over the left field wall
>Will bid the bleacher bums adieu
>And I will come to my final resting place,
>Out on Waveland Avenue
>
>The dying man's friends told him to cut it out They
>said stop it that's an awful shame
>He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near
>the Heavenly Hall of Fame"
>He said, "I've got season's tickets to watch the
>Angels now, So its just what I'm going to do
>He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with
>the Cubs, So its me that feels sorry for you!
>And he said, "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers
>tune, That's the one I like the best
>And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
>What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
>
>And here it is
>
>Do they still play the blues in Chicago
>When baseball season rolls around?
>When the snow melts away,
>Do the Cubbies still play
>In their ivy covered burial ground?
>When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
>But now they only bring fatigue
>To the home of the brave
>The land of the free
>And the doormat of the National League

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Replies:

Re: Do they play the bues in Chicago? -- mike, 13:25:53 10/12/03 Sun
- Re: Do they play the bues in Chicago? -- Gina, 14:20:22 10/12/03 Sun
  - Re: Do they play the bues in Chicago? -- mike, 21:08:24 10/13/03 Mon
  - Re: Do they play the bues in Chicago? -- machelle, 17:55:23 10/14/03 Tue