Editing Take Me Out to the Ball Game (section)

==Lyrics==
Below are the lyrics of the 1908 version, which is out of copyright.

{{poemquote|Katie Casey was baseball mad,
Had the fever and had it bad.
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry sou{{efn|The term ''[[solidus (coin)|sou]]'', a coin of [[French franc|French]] origin, was at the time common [[slang]] for a low-denomination coin. In French the expression {{lang|fr|sans le sou}} has the meaning of being penniless. [[Carly Simon]]'s version, produced for [[Ken Burns]]' 1994 documentary, ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'', reads "Ev'ry cent/Katie spent".}}
Katie blew.
On a Saturday her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go
To see a show, but Miss Kate said "No,
I'll tell you what you can do:"

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Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Buy me some [[peanut]]s and [[Cracker Jack]],
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.

Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names.
Told the [[umpire (baseball)|umpire]] he was wrong,
All along,
Good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:|''Take Me Out to the Ball Game'', 1908 version<ref>* [http://www.tinfoil.com/cm-9808.htm#e09926 Original lyric, sung by Edward Meeker], recorded in 1908 on a [[phonograph cylinder]]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_stmo.shtml Lyrics to 1927 version]</ref>}}