Letters in the Dirt by Chuck Brodsky (Ft. Chuck Brodsky, David Hamburger & Jenny Hirsch)
Letters in the Dirt by Chuck Brodsky (Ft. Chuck Brodsky, David Hamburger & Jenny Hirsch)

Letters in the Dirt

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Letters in the Dirt by Chuck Brodsky (Ft. Chuck Brodsky, David Hamburger & Jenny Hirsch)

Release Date
Tue Jan 01 2002
Performed by
Chuck BrodskyDavid Hamburger & Jenny Hirsch & Chuck Brodsky
Produced by
Brandon Bush & Kristian Bush
Writed by
Chuck Brodsky
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Richie Allen was my favorite baseball player when I was a kid growing up in Philadelphia. He would get booed by the Philly fans, and in response, he’d write words in the dirt around first base. This song is in the song recording library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Letters in the Dirt Lyrics

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen
I never understood why people did
He hit a homer every time he stepped up to the plate
That’s what I remember as a kid

Richie in the field out there by first base
The target of some mighty foul words
With his shoes he’d scrawl between the pitched
“B-O-O” in great big letters in the dirt

Philly fans, they’ve been known to get nasty
When Joe must go, they’ll run him out of town
I saw Santa get hit by a snowball
And then get hit again when he was down

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen
Even if he did sometimes strike out
I was too young to read the papers
To know what all that booing was about

That big collapse of ‘64 was ugly
They blew a lead of 6 and one-half games with 12 to play
Some might say their fans were justifiably angry
World Series tickets printed up in vain

Philly fans, they’ve been known to get nasty
When Joe must go, they’ll run him out of town
I saw Santa get hit by a snowball
And then get hit again when he was down

Going back to old Connie Mack Stadium
You teaching me the rules of the game
We root-root-rooted for the home team
Those other people should’ve been ashamed

This was before the days of the million dollar contracts
Before the days of the artificial grass
He stood a bit outside the lines which made him fair game for those times
Richie Allen never kissed a white man’s ass

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen
No, we’d pound our mitts & we’d yell, “We want a hit”
How could they call a guy a bum after he’d just hit a home run?
That didn’t make any sense to a kid

Now I’ve since found out all these days later
Now I know a lot more than I did
And if back then you knew, Daddy, why all those other people booed...
Thanks for letting me have my heroes as a kid

Letters in the Dirt Q&A

Who wrote Letters in the Dirt's ?

Letters in the Dirt was written by Chuck Brodsky.

Who produced Letters in the Dirt's ?

Letters in the Dirt was produced by Brandon Bush & Kristian Bush.

When did Chuck Brodsky release Letters in the Dirt?

Chuck Brodsky released Letters in the Dirt on Tue Jan 01 2002.

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