===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

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