Just a boy and his dreams
And a girl in her teens
And a plan in the front of his mind
He said, someway, I'm gonna play
In the big lake someday
Stick with me just to wait and see in time
Well, she waited a while
But no longer a child
She got tired of chasing the wind
She left him one spring,
triple -A second string,
And went home to marry a friend.
She learned to cook and
learned to stitch,
While he learned to pitch a little bit better
each year.
And the two boys she raised
were so full of praise
For the hero that they held so dear
An d they yelled, come and see
Mom here on
TV
It's the last and biggest game of the year
The count is full, the score is tied
Ninth inning, bottom side
He'll strike him out, just wait and see
They both cheer
An d sure enough there he stood
like he always said he would
He was doin' what he always wanted to
That
New
York teen he loved to hate, was standing at the plate,
and only she knew his dream was coming true
He proudly stood his crown,
out there on the mound, facin' the world all alone
And the family wondered why
there were tears in
Mama's eyes
Cause she cried when the
Yankees came home
Mama cried when the
Yankees came home