Tonart: C major
Verse 1
C
Bb
F
C
I was born in Oklahoma, 1931
Spavinaw
C
Where the red dust clouds the sun
F
G
And I ran beneath your diamond skies
C
F
And I drank your waves of grain
Em
Am
My name is Mickey Mantle, boys
Bb
G
And baseball is my game
Verse 2
C
F
My father's name was "Mut
t", boy
And he worked down
G
C
Csus2
in the mines
C
F
He pitched to me in the evening
C
At least a thousand times
Csus2
C
F
G
A thousand times again,
Csus2
C
F
in my nightmare and my dreams
Em
You're going to live in
the house that
Bb
You're going to make that
G
Csus2
G
Yankee team
Verse 3
F
the Yankee scout comes drivin',
C
Csus2
C
Right down route 66
F
He'd have never come to
C
Spavinaw class D ball in the sticks,
F
But I happened to be playing
G
in an old wood ball park
C
F
Way out on the mother road
Em
Am
That Yan kee scout he signed me
Bb
G
and I went up to the the show
Verse 4
C
F
Strike 1, that was the drinkin'
C
Strike 2, there go the knees
F
Then my old man died in Denver
C
Some type of lung disease
F
When God starts throwing
C
F
You can't swing with fame or wealth
Em
Am
If I'd known I's going to live this long
Bb
I'd have taken care of myself.
G
F
C
F
Interlude 1
G
F
C
F
C
Verse 5
C
I don't miss
F
the lights of Times Square
C
I don't miss Toots Shore's bar
F
I miss my old man pitchin' baseball
C
Near the shed in our backyard
F
G
I wish that he were still alive
C
F
To see these trophies on my shelf
Em
Am
If I'd known I was going to live this long
Bb
I'd have taken better care of myself
G
Verse 6
C
F
C
I was born in Oklahoma,
F
1931 Outside the town of
Spavinaw
C
Where the red dust clouds the sun
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