Wonderful Town, Act I: No. 9. Pass the Football-Sir Simon Rattle/London Symphony Orchestra/Duncan Rock

[00:04.85]Look at me now, [00:10.29]Four years of college, [00:12.51]Famous professors [00:14.82]Tutoring me; [00:16.64]Scholarship kid, [00:18.66]Everything paid for, [00:20.83]Food and vacations, [00:23.00]All of it free. [00:25.11]Day that I left, [00:27.13]Everyone gathered, [00:29.30]Their cheering still rings in my ears . . . [00:33.13]Ray wreck rah! [00:35.20]Rah wreck ray! [00:37.27]Rah wreck! [00:37.93]Wreck rah! [00:38.88]Rah wreck wreck! [00:39.84]W-e-c, r-e-k, r-e-q, [00:45.88]Wreck, we love you! [00:49.11]‘Cause I could pass that football [00:52.53]Like nothin’ you have ever seen! [01:05.88]Couldn’t spell a lick, [01:08.19]Couldn’t do arithmetic; [01:10.66]One and one made three, [01:12.69]Thought that dog was c-a-t, [01:15.25]But I could pass that football [01:18.38]Like nothin’ you have ever seen. [01:23.90]Couldn’t write my name, [01:25.73]Couldn’t translate ‘je vous aime’, [01:28.45]Never learned to read [01:30.27]Mother goose or andr’ Gide, [01:32.93]But I could pass that football [01:36.46]Like nothin’ you have ever seen. [01:41.50]Couldn’t figure riddles, [01:43.36]Puzzles made me pout: [01:45.64]Where the hell was Moses when the lights went out’ [01:49.17]I couldn’t even tell red from green, [01:52.55]Get those verbs through my bean, [01:54.05]But I was buddies with the dean [01:56.77]Like nothin’ you have ever seen. [01:59.19]Passed without a fuss [02:02.97]English lit and calculus. [02:05.44]Never had to cram, [02:07.40]Even passed the bar exam, [02:10.19]Because I passed that football [02:13.36]Like nothin’ you have ever seen. [02:22.62]Couldn’t dance for beans, [02:25.26]Mashed my girls to smithereens. [02:27.64]Sometimes blood was spilled, [02:29.91]Still my card was always filled, [02:32.23]‘Cause I could pass that football [02:36.58]Like nothin’ you have ever seen. [02:41.08]Then there was the week [02:42.80]Albert Einstein came to speak: [02:45.31]Relativity! [02:47.02]Guess who introduced him’ Me! [02:50.08]‘Cause I could pass that football [02:53.67]Like nothin’ you have ever seen. [02:58.45]Had no table manners, [03:00.42]Used ta dunk my roll, [03:03.00]Always drunk the water from the fingerbowl. [03:07.00]Though I would not get up for any she, [03:09.65]The prexy’s mom -- age ninety-three -- [03:12.00]Got up and gave her seat to me, [03:13.92]Like nothin’ you did ever see. [03:18.25]In our hall of fame, [03:20.38]There’s a statue with my name. [03:23.00]There we stand, by heck, [03:24.82]Lincoln, Washington and Wreck. [03:27.90]‘Cause I could pass that football [03:31.53]Like nothin’ you have ever seen!