3rd Base, Dodger Stadium - Ry Cooder

Mister, you’re a baseball man, as anyone can plainly see

The straightest game in this great land.

Take a little tip from me

I work here nights, parking cars, underneath the moon and stars

The same ones that we all knew back in 1952

And if you want to know where a local boy like me is coming from:

3rd base, Dodger Stadium

2nd base, right over there.

I see grandma in her rocking chair

Watching linens flapping in the breeze, and all the fellows choosing up their

teams

Hand over hand on that Louisville.

Crowning the top, king of the hill

Mound to home, sixty feet.

Baseball been very good to me

And if you want to know where a local boy like me is coming from:

3rd base, Dodger Stadium

3rd base, Dodger Stadium

Back around the 76 ball, Johnny Greeneyes had his shoeshine stall

In the middle of the 1st base line, got my first kiss, Florencia was kind

Now, if the dozer hadn’t taken my yard, you’d see the tree with our initials

carved

So many moments in my memory.

Sure was fun, 'cause the game was free

It was free

Hey mister, you seem anxious to go.

You’ll find that seat, in the 7th row

Behind home plate, where we used to meet.

When we were young, we had dreams

Just a place you don’t know, up a road you can’t go

Just a thought, laid to rest in my mind, just a time

If you care to know where I’m gonna go when I hit my last homerun:

3rd base, Dodger Stadium

3rd base, Dodger Stadium

3rd base, Dodger Stadium

Hey, Mister, you are a baseball man

Yes, I’m a baseball man myself

Yes, I’m a baseball man, too

Baseball been very good to me

Yes, baseball been very good to me