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