Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Take me out to the ball game,

Take me out with the crowd

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,

I don't care if I never get back,

Let me root, root, root for the home team,

If they don't win it's a shame

For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,

at the old ball game.

This song is sung with much spirit by millions of fans each year during the 7th inning stretch of a baseball game.  Of course as a family who loves baseball we've made sure Sofia knows this song.  Did you know, however, that there are two verses?

Katie Casey was baseball mad,

Had the fever and had it bad;

Just to root for the home town crew,

ev'ry sou Katie blew

On a Saturday, her young beau

called to see if she'd like to go,

To see a show but Miss Katie said "no,

I'll tell you what you can do:"

Katie Casey saw all the games,

Knew the players by their first names;

Told the umpire he was wrong,

all along good and strong

When the score was just two to two,

Katie Casey knew what to do.

Just to cheer up the boys she knew,

She made the gang sing the song:

Enjoy the 2008 baseball season.