This last tune is- is called "The Beautiful Game" and um
I used to live in Austin Texas before moving here to Sisters and um
And I joined an adult league sports team
Please if- if you're watching this and know of any, uh, good
Pick-up soccer games happening please let me know
Around town I'm um um eh, really fiending but anyway
In Austin I joined this team and it was called
The Celtic Cowboys and mostly first and second
Generation English and Irish lads and
They were very fun in the bars and very mean to the referees and
Um and the captain of this team was this guy named Martin and
And Martin took, uh, took it very seriously and um
And my impression before of, of sort of adult league sports
Was that, uh, it was a sort of a for fun league but
But Martin was, was all about, um, running sprints on your own
And, and long impassioned half-time speeches and
And the thing about Martin was that he wasn't
Wasn't the best player and, um, this song is for Martin and
And all of us who do
Things we love regardless of ability
Kick the ball with me
One more time
Kick the ball Daddy
Kick the ball with me
One more time
Kick the ball Daddy
Martin was born in England
With two left feet
The son of Irish immigrants
And he'd get up early
To watch the weekend games
With bruised shins he'd come home late
And his Dad would say
"Martin," do your work
And put that bloody futbol away
But he'd sneak out to the stadium
And he'd stare up at the lights
And hear them chanting his name
In the beautiful game
In the beautiful game
And he grew up fast
And he bought a one way ticket
Across the Atlantic to Michigan
For the promise of football
And an education
Away from nails and hammering
But he found snow instead of grass
And weight lifting
And the wrong football on TV
So he took his degree
And he moved down to Texas
To coach a high school soccer team
In the beautiful game
In the beautiful game
And that's where I met him
And he was well into balding
And we were on the same men's league team
And he'd give a half time speech
Every Sunday
To us half listening
And it sounded like
Give it all you got
Give it everything
Cause this is everything to me
And no other team got a half time speech
And I believed him
And I can still hear him say
The beautiful game
The beautiful game
And his dad would say
Find something else to do
Maybe football is not the thing for you
But he kept coming back to that 4-4-2
Like David Beckham
And Steven Gerrard
And Rio Ferdinand
And Shaun Wright Phillips
And Frank Lampard
And Brad Tisdel and
Sir Bobby Charlton
In the beautiful game
In the beautiful game
And after the cheers and the handshakes and the beers
Martin remains
And he sits with his back to the goal post
Looking almost
Like he's always sat that way
And he cracks a smile
And he lets his hand down
To feel the grass beneath
And he lingers
As he runs his fingers
Through the dirt and the dreams
Kick the ball with me
One more time
Kick the ball Daddy
Kick the ball with me
One more time
Kick the ball Daddy