[00:00.000]Saturday summers, when I was a kid
[00:14.250]We'd run to the schoolyard and here's what we did
[00:18.930]We'd pick out the captains and we'd choose up the teams
[00:23.468]It was always a measure of my self esteem
[00:28.424]Cuz the fastest, the strongest, played shortstop and first
[00:32.875]The last ones they picked were the worst
[00:37.356]I never needed to ask, it was sealed,
[00:42.408]I just took up my place in right field. Playing
[00:49.899]Right field, it's easy, you know.
[00:54.058]You can be awkward and you can be slow
[00:58.822]That's why I'm here in right field
[01:01.506]Just watching the dandelions grow
[01:07.919]Playing right field can be lonely and dull
[01:12.907]Little Leagues never have lefties that pull
[01:17.698]I'd dream of the day they'd hit one my way
[01:22.298]They never did, but still I would pray
[01:27.401]That I'd make a fantastic catch on the run
[01:32.162]And not lose the ball in the sun
[01:37.214]And then I'd awake from this long reverie
[01:41.251]And pray that the ball never came out to me. Here in
[01:46.130]Here in right field, it's important you know.
[01:50.646]You gotta know how to catch, you gotta know how to throw,
[01:55.621]That's why I'm here in right field, just watching the dandelions grow!
[02:04.275]Off in the distance, the game's dragging on,
[02:30.627]There's strikes on the batter, some runners are on.
[02:35.079]I don't know the inning, I've forgotten the score.
[02:39.861]The whole team is yelling and I don't know what for.
[02:44.520]Then suddenly everyone's looking at me
[02:49.212]My mind has been wandering; what could it be?
[02:53.799]They point at the sky and I look up above
[02:58.413]And a baseball falls into my glove!
[03:05.728]Here in right field, it's important you know.
[03:12.648]You gotta know how to catch, you gotta know how to throw,
[03:17.172]That's why I'm here in right field, just watching the dandelions grow!