In the depths of a New York winter
I am waiting for the baseball season to start
My old man was a New York Giants fan
Even though he lived in Brooklyn
The Mets didn't exactly do well last year
But the cry "Wait till Next Year"
Rang out!!
With Al Jackson, Ron Hunt, Casey Stengel and the great Tom Seaver
The Mets battled on through the years
Hope to make it to some games next season
Only went to one by myself last year
Met a babe from San Diego
And told someone
"Maybe I'll go see a lacrosse game next
He said "I didn't hear that"
Let's go Mets!!
Watching the Mets
I fell relaxed
I have always been
a fan of thiers
I remember Al, Sean Green, Choo Choo Coleman and of course
the one of a kind Casy Stengel
The Mets pitcher just walked someone
in the fourth inning
I am at my mother's place
I think she doesn't care about the game
except of course the World Series
I'll be a baseball star
in my next life
The green field
spread out
in front of us
The smell of beer, pretzels, hot dogs
The cheers from the crowd
memories flood through me
on this desolate winter day
Slush on the ground
Cars whizzing by
I sit here on New York's
fabled Lower East Side
and remember good times
at the ballpark
Mays, Shamsky, Kranepool and above all Stengel
Names which light up the sky
for thousands of fans
in this metropolis - Baghdad on the Hudson
my home - NYC
Now I see
that
World Series time
has arrived
Seems to me that something
is missing there
The NY Mets
aren't in it
As a fan from their inception
I remember Mr. Stengel and Art Shamsky(Another Jewish Ballplayer - great)
Kranepool - who never quite lived up to his potential
but made a stout try at first
Banner day - a lot of fun
Holding up a sparkle strewn "We love the Mets" sign
After Ebbets Field
After Shea Stadium
there is now Citifield
Where the New York Metropolitans will
will take over the green fields
Onward O Metropolitans
Your multitude of fans
await your entrance
As spring comes
around again
It brings the scent of flowers
and a thousand, thousand fans - a great multitude
Hoping and praying
for a victorious season
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