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Calico Joe


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John Grisham wrote a book about Calico Joe a baseball player that has his career stopped by a fastball to the head. I made up this from that...still waiting for Grisham to call and say we have a co-write but haven't heard. Calico Rock is a real town in Arkansas.

 

 

 

Calico Joe

 

 

In Calico Rock a young man in baseball shoes

Under blue skies, on grass as green as emerald jewels

Strolled to the box with a long slow gate

Where he hailed from, it seems nobody knows

The legend has it he would crowd the plate

And everybody called him Calico Joe

 

A glove to love and swing as sweet as a pecan pie,

Joe would dig in for the fence to every fans delight

Foul off the tough ones, looking for his pitch

Get one down the middle, off it would go

His legacy grew, giving managers fits

And everybody cheered for Calico Joe

 

But not everyone admired him

And word got around the league

Pitchers threw high and tight

Until a fastball turned out the lights

His fans wailing, deep into the night

 

 

 

Instrumental break

 

That never slowed him down, getting hit in the face

Most men would break and give into solemn fate

But he is not an ordinary man

On the fields there's sounds of laughter, soft and low

You can hear the crack of a bat in the stands

And everybody knows its Calico Joe

 

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The song appears to be well crafted, but I'm not picking up a storyline.

I confess to not knowing the game of baseball, so I could be missing something here.

But all I am getting is that there was a character by the name of Calico Joe and he played baseball. (in some detail)

 

Hard to explain if you don't know baseball, but as I pointed out in the prologue he gets hit in the head by a thrown baseball...to me it is very clear...what may be unclear is at the end...did he die?...maybe...does his spirit live on? Could be either or...

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