O House That Ruth Built

How can we live up to your glory

The world needs a Shakespeare

To do justice to your story

You are the inspiration

For the heart of our nation

The Yankees of today are living legends that tread the earth

Nothing can live up to their inestimable worth

A-Rod, Jeter, Joba Chamberlain

Against such a brilliant line-up

No team could ever hope to win

Mariano Rivera, the pitcher of the Golden Arm

Who protects the Yanks from late-inning harm

Johnny Damon fled the thankless Red Sox for New York’s embrace

To become our iron slugger and home run hitting ace

A-Rod holding up the team with homer after homer

And standing guard like a sentinel in the third base hot corner

But what of the immortal pantheon of Yankee gods from ages past

Do their spirits still not endure to inspire the modern age?

Just as their images live in enduring bronze statues cast

Do they help us to relive past glory with every turn of history’s page

The Immortal Ruth, whose name is engraved on every brick and stone

On the coliseum of glory that every fan calls home

Joe DiMaggio the home run slugger and RBI machine

Whose glory on and off the field made him America’s king

Whose exploits as a hero never ceased to grow

And won him the eternal love of Marilyn Monroe

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris

The home run slugging twins

Countless glories for New York they helped The Yankees win

Elston Howard and Satchel Paige and Reggie Jackson too

Proved that the only color that counts is the Yankee blue

Don Larsen, Whitey Ford and every pitcher who ever graced our bull pen

Were the spearhead of the shining lance that for years enabled us to win

And lest we not pay homage to The Yankees’ brilliant leadership

Which would be like not recognizing the captain of the ship

Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, Joe Torre we owe you all our thanks

For guiding and inspiring our priceless heroes, THE YANKS

Now a new generation takes its place

In the on-deck circle of up-and-coming aces

The Three Young Kings Melky Robinson and Phil

Have many years before them to show us all new thrills

Not since ancient times has the world seen gargantuan heroes such as these

To bring us future glory to The New York Yankees