From the recording Sluggers
Notes:
Players:
Jake Speed – vocals, guitar
Justin Todhunter – vocals, mandolin, steel guitar
Chris Werner – upright bass
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by: Chris Werner
Recorded at “Go To Your Room Studio” in Northside, Ohio
Copyright2008 Jake Speed
Extra line:
St. Peter has quite a cut, can’t he pinch hit for you?
Lyrics
Called Up
Music & Words by: Jake Speed
If we could just play one more game of catch
In the backyard by the old worn path,
Would Heaven let you out for something like that?
If you could show me your curve ball one more time;
Hit me grounders just before suppertime,
Would Heaven let you out for something like that?
Chorus:
I wish they never would’ve called you up to the Big League in the Sky.
I wish they never would’ve called you up and left me here behind.
I practice every day just the way you taught me to.
If I could get a little better, maybe Heaven would call me up too.
If I could swing the bat like you showed me how
And hit a rainmaker into the clouds,
Would Heaven let me in for something like that?
If I could loosen the cannon; let the windmill fly;
Let it ride like a train headed to the sky,
Would Heaven let me in for something like that?