![]() It’s interesting to note that, while this song has become the unofficial anthem of American baseball, neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song! Go figure. Who wrote and published hundreds of songs from that era. This tune is a Tin Pan Alley song by vaudeville star Jack Norworth (1879-1959)Īnd composer Albert Von Tilzer (1878-1956) Here’s a version from Ken Burns’ “Baseball” PBS series. It’s the iconic old musical chestnut from 1908, “ Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Our book only gives us the chorus, but the two verses put a bit of a feminine twist to the whole thing. But, anyway, it’s altogether fitting and proper to check out the one baseball song in our Yellow Book. Here we are in the middle of this year’s Baseball World Series-alas, sans our Red Sox. ![]() UKULELE MUSING 42, 26 OCTOBER 2019: “TAKE ME OUT TO ![]()
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