Todd Snider - America's Favorite Pastime lyrics

Dock Ellis didn't think he was pitching that day Back in 1970 When he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark A little bit differently So by the time that he hit the bullpen Half the world had melted away That's about the time coach Murtaugh came and said Dock you're pitching today Taking the mound the ground turned into The icing on a birthday cake The lead off man came up and turned into A dancing rattle snake The crowd tracked back and forth In waves of color underneath the sun That ball turned into a silver bullet His arm into a gun I took a look all around the world one time I finally discovered You can't judge a book Three up, three down for three straight innings In a zero, zero tie As all those batters names come ringing From a voice out of the sky Hallucinating Halloween scenes Each new swing of the bat His sinker looked like it was falling off a table But nobody was hallucinating that I took a look all around the world one time I finally discovered You can't judge a book By the top of the seventh he was up one to nothing And giving them padres fits By the bottom of the eighth he was up two to nothing And they still hadn't got any hits With one out left to go in the game The batter looked like a baby child That birthday cake was shaking Them waves of color was going wild By the time that he mowed the last man down He was high as he had ever been Laughing to the sounds of the world going around Completely unaware of the win And while the papers would say he was scattered that day He was pretty as a pitcher could be The day Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates Threw a no hitter on LSD I took a look all around the world one time I finally discovered You can't judge a book