Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a popular American baseball song traditionally sung during the “seventh inning stretch” in the ball park. At that time—between the halves of the seventh inning of the game—fans stand up and stretch. Jack Norworth, a popular American vaudeville entertainer, wrote the lyrics to the song in 1908. He claimed that he scribbled the words on a scrap of paper in about 15 minutes while riding on a train in New York City. Norworth gave the lyrics to American composer Albert Von Tilzer, who wrote the music.
The complete song consists of two verses, each followed by an identical chorus. Norworth revised the two verses in 1927 but retained the chorus. Only the chorus is sung at ball parks. The words of the chorus are as follows:
Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don’t care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, I f they don’t win it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out, At the old ball game.
