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