one shot gone it was a cold day for the losers who came down to savannah to play for the weekend don t let them slip away boys cause they ll catch you if you ain t looking keep your mits up and your caps down at the ballpark she said we were both something back then had the whole word at our fingers and i still remember the day that they called you up for the big show and you could of had me still no but you never do listen you were too busy packing your bags for the big lights the big city in the spring he said i thought i was made out of gold my big games my big moments till i threw out my shoulder and they sent me back to the farm league yeah and these days the best i can do is to keep cold ice on my good arm sometimes it hangs to my side in these late innings all of my rambling around yeah and all of my shameful days the biggest mistake i made was to leave you back in georgia i m just a washed up ballplayer at best but i did keep all of my earnings i still got one good arm to hold ya and one to pay anyone anywhere you think you might want to go anywhere you think you might want to go she says it seems so silly now lord knows you don t deserve it with your lost towns and the highways and the young girls and the tears but i ll give an old man a chance one more to see just what your made of cause your only as good as a woman who will wait for you after all these years she said take me out to the ballgame take me out to the crowd yeah and buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks and i don t care if i ever get back for it s root baby root for the home team if they don t win its a shame for it s 1 2 3 strikes your out at the old ballgame 