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In the joy of the new season We'd ride out bikes for miles To a vacant lot on Maple Street Toss the bat and choose up sides All summer long from dusk till dawn We all paid our dues Everybody was the babe But I was always 42 As the jerseys faded one by one The babes would come and go But I played every inning From the sandlot to the show Got my letter and my grip I'll see you boys around I got a one way ticket to Cooperstown My ticket's punched to Cooperstown His rookie year they called him up Just to send him down Couldn't even hit his weight Couldn't turn that thing around But on the field that echoes life It's a boys game played by men And sometimes it knocks you down SongtexteBut you get back up again He's got his number, he's got his grip He's following a sound Destiny is calling from Cooperstown These wheels are bound for Cooperstown Well I learned to play down in triple A They gave me one more shot Skip said take the ball kid touch 'em all Gotta give it all you got So I played er' one game at a time And that was all it took Just like Jack I never looked back And the rest is in the books There ain't nothin' I can't do Just like 42 What goes around comes around These wheels are bound for Cooperstown These wheels are bound for Cooperstown Aus Songtexte Mania