The Goat Is Dead!
I missed the night of Hailey's Comet,
Cloudy skies,
Was working instead.
I was asleep,
Last time the Eagles played,
No time off I was home in bed.
I've never seen,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
No trail to that ancient dusty land.
Never saw,
The space shuttle landing,
Not a single rocket take off.
But I was there,
Yes I was watching,
The night we learned the Billy Goat was dead.
The last time,
They couldn't announce it,
radio hadn't been invented yet.
Six-to-six,
In game seven,
Bottom of the ninth it went to ten.
Got rained out,
The tarp was over the field,
It dried up and on they played.
I was there,
Yes I was watching,
The night we learned the Billy Goat was dead.
2016,
The Cubs won the Series,
First time since 1908.
I missed the night of Hailey's Comet,
Cloudy skies,
Was working instead.
I was asleep,
Last time the Eagles played,
No time off I was home in bed.
I've never seen,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
No trail to that ancient dusty land.
Never saw,
The space shuttle landing,
Not a single rocket take off.
But I was there,
Yes I was watching,
The night we learned the Billy Goat was dead.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 11-03-2016
Author's note:
The Billy Goat refers to a supposed
curse on the Chicago Cubs
imposed after they wouldn't allow the owner of the famous Billy Goat
Tavern to bring his mascot on the field at Wrigley. This one is for you,
Lenny "Pops" and Uncle John O'Hara - they waited their entire lives for
the Cubs to win the series and missed it by two years. They passed
within two weeks of each other in 2014.
