LOUIS SOCKALEXIS

CHORUS

LOUIS SOCKALEXIS OF THE PENOBSCOT NATION

WAS A TURN OF THE CENTURY SPORTS SENSATION

THE FIRST TO MAKE THE HOLY CROSS SPORT’S HALL

THE NATION’S BEST COLLEGE PLAYER OF THEM ALL

IN HIS LAST YEAR THERE HE HIT FOUR FORTY FOUR

GOD GAVE HIM THE TALENT TO DO EVEN MORE

DID HE SMASH 600 FOOT HOMERS? COULD THAT BE TRUE?

LOUIS SOCKALEXIS A LEGEND THROUGH AND THROUGH

IN THE DEAD BALL ERA HE BELTED TITANIC BLOWS

BEYOND THE BASEBALL FIELD THRU FOURTH STORY WINDOWS

HE THREW STRIKES TO THE CATCHER 400 FEET AWAY

IF RUNNERS TRIED TO SCORE LOUIS MADE THEM PAY

REPEAT CHORUS

NOT THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN TO MAKE IT TO THE MAJORS

BUT THE FIRST TO HEADLINE THE NATION'S SPORTS PAGES

HE BLAZED LIKE A COMET ACROSS THE BASEBALL SKY

TO HALL OF FAMERS LOUIS WAS A MARVEL TO THE EYE

THE IMMORTAL JOHN McGRAW SURELY SPOKE THE TRUTH

HE COULD'VE BEEN BETTER THAN TY COBB, WAGNER OR RUTH

HE NOT ONLY INSPIRED HE WAS FRANK MERRIWELL

LOUIS WAS MYTH COME TO LIFE UNTIL HE FELL

FOR THOUGH FASTER THAN THE FLEET FOOTED COBB

LOUIS COULDN'T OUTRUN HIMSELF OR BASEBALL’S MOB

FANS HOUNDED HIM WITH WAR HOOPS IN EVERY CITY

THE BEATING OF THEIR DRUMS LEFT HIM NO PITY

REPEAT CHORUS

BLACKS WERE BARRED BUT THEY HAD A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

LOUIS PLAYED IN THE WHITE MAN'S MAJORS ALL ALONE

HOW MANY WAR HOOPS PIERCED HIS HEART?

HOW MANY CARTOONS TORE HIM APART?

THOUGH THERE WAS MUCH WONDER IN LOUIS' LIFE

THE PAIN INSIDE AND OUT CUT HIM LIKE A KNIFE

SOON THIS CYCLONE OF FAME WHIRRLED HIM OUT WITH THE RAIN

BACK TO THE LAND HE LOVED, HE DIED IN THE WOODS OF MAINE

REPEAT TAGLINE AND FADE

MANY ASK WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHEN SPEAKING OF HIS NAME

LOUIS LIVES IN HIS PEOPLE’S HEART. THE TRUE HALL OF FAME

Written by Joe Pickering, Jr. and Phil Coley

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JOE PICKERING JR

KING OF THE ROAD MUSIC

13 POND ST.

BANGOR, MAINE 04401 1-207-947-3525