Let's Get The Umpire's Goat

A song written by Nora Bayes, and Jack Norworth "Let's Get The Umpire's Goat" was published in 1909 by Jerome H. Remick & Co. New York. The year before in 1908 Jack Norworth wrote the words to baseball's official anthem "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Norworth didn't attend his first Major League baseball game until 1940 when he was honored on "Jack Norworth Day" at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. He, and his wife Nora Bayes also wrote the popular song "Shine on, Harvest Moon."

The title page depicts an early 1900's baseball game, with the character of the song Jimmy Crocker, in the bleachers with six other screechers, yelling at the umpire. It seems that the batter and the goats on the field are in disagreement with the call shouting out "Na-aa, Na-aa" The "Get the Umpires Goat" mean to annoy or make him angry.

1909 "Let's Get the Umpire's Goat" Sheet Music" Sheet Music


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"Let's Get the Umpire's Goat" - Lyrics 1909
Composed by Nora Bayes, and Jack Norworth

Young Jimmy Crocker was clerk for a broker,
to be a good clerk was his aim.
When the ball season started, Then Jim was light hearted
For baseball was Jim's middle name.
To his boss he would say "My poor Aunt died today"
so his boss said, "For heaven's sake, go!"
Then he'd hike to the bleachers with six other screechers
and yell if the game was to slow.

Let's get the Umpire's goat; Lets Make him go up in the air.
we'll yell, Oh you robber! go some-where and die
Back to the brush You've got mud in your eye.
Oh, what an awful decision! Why don't you put spectacles on?
Let's holler like sin, and then our side will win.
When the umpire's nanny is gone. gone.

Jimmy kept wishin', in fact his ambition
was nat'ral for one of his age.
He wanted to be like Mike Donlin, you see,
and play ball or else go to the stage.
He knew each player's name and kept tab of the game,
And could tell you how pennants are won.
But each bleacherite fan was with Jim to a man,
when his home team just needed a run.

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