Saturday Hero

Saturday summers when I was a kid
we ran to the schoolyard and here’s what we did

picked up the captains and chose up the teams
it was always a measure to my self esteem

the fast ones the strong ones played shortstop and first
the last ones they picked were the worst

I never needed to ask it was sealed
I just took up my place in right field

here in right field it’s lonely and dull
little league’s never have lefty’s that pull

Id pray for the day they’d hit one my way
but they never would so still I would pray

off in the distance the games draggin on
there’s strikes on the batter some runners are on
I don’t know the inning I’ve forgotten the score
the whole team is yelling and I don’t know what for
suddenly everyone’s looking at me my mind has been wondering
what can it be? they point to the sky and I look up above

AND A BASEBALL FALLS INTO MY GLOVE

Here in right field it’s important you know
you gotta know how to catch’ you gotta know how to throw

that’s why I’m here in right field
just watchin the dandylions grow

(from long ago I don,t know where it came from/ superoutdoorsmen.