Song Lyrics: Singing and Stretching
Many baseball games have something known as the “seventh-inning stretch.” Fans get up to stretch their legs and move around in the middle of the seventh inning of the baseball game.
During the seventh-inning stretch, the crowd will often sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” This song was written in 1908. Jack Norworth wrote the words to the song but had never been to a baseball game!
Did you Know?
Many fans like to sing the name of their own team instead of “home team.” For example, in San Diego, California, Padres fans would sing, “Let me root, root, root for the Padres …”
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.