===Key:D===Tempo:141========
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[guitar intro]
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[]
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When he was a kid, he'd be up at 5, take shots to 8, make the
thing drive
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Out after school, back on ice, that was his life, he was
gonna play in the
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Big League Ooooh, in the
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Big League.
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Not many ways out of this cold northern twn, u work in the mill & get
laid in the ground
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If ur gonna jump it will be with the game, real fast & tough is the
only clear lane to the
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Big League Ooooooh
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My boy's gonna play in the big league, my boy's gonna turn some heads,
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My boy's gonna play in the big league, my boy's gonna knock 'em dead
..
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Ooooooo, in the Big League
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[]
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All the right moves when he turned 18, scholarship and school on a big
US team
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Out with his girl near Lake McLean, hit a truck doing 70 in the wrong
lane to the
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Big League Oooooooooooo
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My boy's going to play in the BL, my boy's going to turn some heads,
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my boy's going to play in the BL, my boy's going to knock 'em dead ..
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Never can tell what might come down, never can tell how much you got,
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Just don't know, no, you never can tell, [guitar only]
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[]
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Sometimes at nite u can hear the ice crack, it sounds like thunder &
it rips thru my back
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S'times in the morning I still hear the sound, ice meets metal, "Can't
you drive me down to the
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BL?" OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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My boy's going to play in the BL my boy's going to turn some heads
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my boy's going to play in the BL, my boy's going to knock 'em dead
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Never can tell what might come down, never can tell when u might check
out
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Just don't know, no, you never can tell, so do right to others like u
do to yourself in the
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Big League. OOOOOOO
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[backup sings chorus - ad lib lead]
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[]
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[guitar out]
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[3]
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[2]
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[end]
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Fo' A' That, and A' That
It's Comin' Yet Fo' A' That
That Man to Man, the World O'er
Will Brothers Be, Fo' A' That
Robbie Burns