Angels Of Fenway

	  		
Intro: G  G 


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86 summers gone by, Bambino put a hex on the Bean 

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 We were living on a tear and a sigh, in the shadow of the Bronx Machine 

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  Man, you could feel it smolder, the whole town had an attitude 

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Then they get a little chip on the shoulder, say something that's downright rude 

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Oh, damn them Yankees, outspending everybody two to one 

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Picking up on the cream of the crop, stealing everyone's favorite son 



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Angels of Fenway hear our prayers, we have been patient, we have been jacent 




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Grandmama was a Fenway fan, even after Grandad died 

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I still remember her holding my hand, taking me along for the ride 

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She was born in 19  18, last year that the Red Sox won 

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Back the when they sold the Babe, something that they never shoulda ever have done  



Bridge 

One more! 

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Hey Nanna can I have another Coke?  

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   Here come the hot dog ma-----n, look at that, his bat just broke 

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Gee, that's got to kill his hand 

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Riding out on the Green Line, watching the town go by 

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Nanna made another Red Sox fan, till the day I die 


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That was back in sixty-five, doesn't seem like a long time ago 

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Grandmama keeping hope alive, watch them win in double-o-four 

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Oh my God, it was beyond belief, down 3 needing 4 in a row 

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Holding on by the skin of our teeth, like a hungry dog on a bone 

Chorus: 

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Angels of Fenway give them peace, they have been patient, Red Sox nation 


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The whole world held it's breath, people got down on their knees 

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Waiting for the sudden death, praying to heaven for hell to freeze 

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Nanna watched from her hospital bed, she was there till the end of the race 

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I couldn't hear the last word she said but she was lying there with a smile on her face 


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                    Just a little smile on her face 

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                    Doesn't seem like long time ago