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( Baseball bat killing, satirical song lyrics )
GOING BATTY
Copyright © 2005 - mickterry.com

1: Just 'cause some thirteen-year-old
put a bat through some kid's brain
for challenging his manhood
'bout losing a baseball game,
doesn't give them any right
to be taking our bats away.
We're going to bat over this.

2: They're trying to tell us we can't
have a bat in ev'ry home,
protection against break-ins,
for loved ones or when alone,
telling us that bats are bad,
"as statistics have clearly shown".
We're going to bat over this.

CHORUS:
We've got bats on the diamonds.
We've got bats on the fields.
They've got bats in the belfry
if they think we're going to yield.
They've got balls to be thinking
that we'll ever give them up.
Going batty all the way home.

BRIDGE:
Just watch:
The first thing they'll do,
as they chisel away at our rights,
will be to take away aluminum from
all the pro ball stadium nights.
Just watch:
The next thing they'll do
will be regist'ring ev'ry bat.
And then it's on and on
'til they all are gone.
Tell me, what're we going to do about that?

3: We'll arm the populace now
with a bat in ev'ry hand.
The NRA is helping
by lobbying for our stand.
We can't let encroachment of
all our rights get the upper hand.
We're going to bat over this.

CODA:
Hey, what's more American than baseball?
Well, besides that ... & that ...
yeah, & maybe that ...
What's that? ...
They don't allow aluminum bats at pro games?
See ... I told you this was going to happen.

Copyright © 2005  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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April 14, 2005:
A 13-year-old Palmdale, CA, Pony League pitcher,
having lost the first game after a long winning streak,
struck a 15-year-old in the knee & head with an aluminum bat,
killing him.

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