Vintage Vantage Swears by.... Todd Snider

We love Todd Snider! He's a truth-spewing troubadour hobo poet, and you should check out his Myspace, check out his live show next time he comes to your town, and check the below post for a video of his new song America's Favorite Pastime.

Here's the lyrics:

Dock Ellis didn't think he was pitchin' that day back in 1970
when he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark a little bit differently
so by the time he hit the bullpen half the world had melted away
thats about the time Coach Murtaugh came and said Dock your pitching today

taking the mound the ground turned into the icing on a birthday cake
the leadoff 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

chorus: i took a look all around the world one time finally discovered
you cant judge a book

three up three down for three straight innings in a zero zero tie
as all them batters names came 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

chorus

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
the birthday cake was shaking them waves of color was going wild

when he finally mowed the last man down he was high as he had ever been
laughing to the sound 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 pittsburg pirates threw a no hitter on LSD

chorus