Journeys/Journeys 4/The Ninth Man 2

Track: 3

Running Length: 3:38

Additional Information
This song is a sequel to The Ninth Man.

Lyrics
I'm sure you all remember us, the bums from the east-side

Well, now we learn in kollel, though we're pushing forty-five

We each have lots of children, and loads of bills to pay

No one's into baseball, all we do is shteig all day

Rebbe used to teach us Torah each and every day

We opened up our eyes and ears to everything he'd say

And thanks to him we're learned, virtuous, and wise

But one thing is for certain, we don't get much exercise

A short time after Pesach, a note came in the mail

It was from those boys from Brooklyn who'd since moved to Riverdale

They said "we can't get over how we lost to you that way

And we're calling for a rematch on Lag Ba'Omer day" (oy vey)

When Lag Ba'Omer came around, it was time to play that game

Oh how we davened extra hard, prayed it would rain

All nine of us got on the bus with our Bufferin and Bengay

Rebbe also came along with his jacket, tie, and cane

Rebbe used to teach us Torah each and every day

We opened up our eyes and ears to everything he'd say

And thanks to him we're learned, virtuous, and wise

But one thing is for certain, we don't get much exercise

Those guys showed up at the park looking trim and fit

And it sure didn't take too long to see, they still could hit

Doubles, triples, home runs, they knocked the ball about

Why, they'd scored twenty-seven runs and nobody was out

There were two outs in the fifth, boy were we ashamed

Just one more out would make it an official game

With two strikes on our batter, we realized this was it

When faintly Rebbe cried out, "let me pinch-hit"

"What could our dear rebbe do?" Each one of us was wondering

When suddenly, the sky got dark, a-lightning and a-thundering

It started pouring cats and dogs, the field turned into mud

The umpire cried, "this game is called on account we've got a flood!"

Rebbe used to teach us Torah each and every day

We opened up our eyes and ears to everything he'd say

And thanks to him we're learned, virtuous, and wise

And we all signed up at the Kosher Gym, (separate days for men and women of course,) to get our exercise