Bill_McCurdy
12-17-2008, 03:44 PM
Dear Browns Fan Club Members,
Most of the time, it's little kids writing to me. This year, 2008,
I feel it is my duty to write you few grown up kids who once
either played for or followed the fortunes of the late St. Louis
Browns. Because of the way time works its weary hand on all
of us, and because Old St. Nick always did have a dark side
sense of black humor that he most often kept buried as a younger,
less crisper Kringle, I now feel the need to write it out as a seasonal
parody.
Hope you take it it the right spirit and smile - while you still can.
Old Cardinals and Yankees have the same fate awaiting them too.
They just don't have anybody out there celebrating their fates in song.
Here it is, BFCers - "Father Time Is Claiming the Browns!"
(It's remarkably singable to the tune of
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town.")
"You better watch out! You better not cry!
You better not shout; I'm telling you why!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"He's making a list! He's checking it twice!
He's gonna find out whose body's on ice!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
CHORUS: "He knows when you're just sleeping!
He knows when you're just dead!
He knows when your time here is up,
So please don't shake your head!
"He's gonna end up - getting us all!
But that ain't too bad - 'cause once we all fall,
Old St. Pete will rebuild - the Browns!
"Our new job will be - to even the score!
To beat the bad guys - like never before!
There will be - some new Browns - in town!
CHORUS: "He knows when you're just sleeping!
He knows when you're just dead!
He knows when your time here is up,
So please don't shake your head!
"Once we suit up - in the Heavenly Blue,
The Browns have a job - we've justly earned too,
Beating all the clubs who - once won!
"We'll beat up the Yankees! - Damn Tigers too!
Rip up the Red Sox! - Turn the Pale Hose Light Blue!
Winning every day will - be fun!
CHORUS: "He knows when you're just sleeping!
He knows when you're just dead!
He knows when your time here is up,
So please don't shake your head!
"He's gonna get you - your little dog too!
Ain't much of anything - left you can do!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"So when you lay down - take comfort in knowing!
We're no longer coming! -We're pretty much going!
Father Time is claiming - us Browns!
"... We're on the way out!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"... So are the Cardinals!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"... And those Damn Yankees!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns! - the Browns! - the BROWNS!"
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
Santa Claus
Most of the time, it's little kids writing to me. This year, 2008,
I feel it is my duty to write you few grown up kids who once
either played for or followed the fortunes of the late St. Louis
Browns. Because of the way time works its weary hand on all
of us, and because Old St. Nick always did have a dark side
sense of black humor that he most often kept buried as a younger,
less crisper Kringle, I now feel the need to write it out as a seasonal
parody.
Hope you take it it the right spirit and smile - while you still can.
Old Cardinals and Yankees have the same fate awaiting them too.
They just don't have anybody out there celebrating their fates in song.
Here it is, BFCers - "Father Time Is Claiming the Browns!"
(It's remarkably singable to the tune of
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town.")
"You better watch out! You better not cry!
You better not shout; I'm telling you why!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"He's making a list! He's checking it twice!
He's gonna find out whose body's on ice!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
CHORUS: "He knows when you're just sleeping!
He knows when you're just dead!
He knows when your time here is up,
So please don't shake your head!
"He's gonna end up - getting us all!
But that ain't too bad - 'cause once we all fall,
Old St. Pete will rebuild - the Browns!
"Our new job will be - to even the score!
To beat the bad guys - like never before!
There will be - some new Browns - in town!
CHORUS: "He knows when you're just sleeping!
He knows when you're just dead!
He knows when your time here is up,
So please don't shake your head!
"Once we suit up - in the Heavenly Blue,
The Browns have a job - we've justly earned too,
Beating all the clubs who - once won!
"We'll beat up the Yankees! - Damn Tigers too!
Rip up the Red Sox! - Turn the Pale Hose Light Blue!
Winning every day will - be fun!
CHORUS: "He knows when you're just sleeping!
He knows when you're just dead!
He knows when your time here is up,
So please don't shake your head!
"He's gonna get you - your little dog too!
Ain't much of anything - left you can do!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"So when you lay down - take comfort in knowing!
We're no longer coming! -We're pretty much going!
Father Time is claiming - us Browns!
"... We're on the way out!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"... So are the Cardinals!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns!
"... And those Damn Yankees!
Father Time is claiming - the Browns! - the Browns! - the BROWNS!"
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
Santa Claus