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Leave Us Go Root for the Dodgers by Dan Parker

The Dodgers may have moved across the country, but to countless fans they will always be remembered as the Brooklyn Dodgers. The following verse pays tribute to a special time in the life of the author.

"Leave us go root for the Dodgers, Rodgers. That's the team for me." - Dan Parker

Published: New York Daily Mirror (1942)

Murgatroyd Darcy,
the belle of Carnarsie,
Went 'round with a fellow named Rodge.
At dancing the rhumba or jitterbug number,
You couldn't beat Rodge at this dodge.

Throughout the cold weather,
the pair danced together,
But when the trees blossomed again,
Miss Murgatroyd Darcy,
the belle of Carnarsie

To Rodgers would sing this refrain:

Leave us go root for the Dodgers,
Rodgers.
That's the team for me.
Leave us make noise for the boisterous boys
on the BMT.

Summer or winter or any season,
Flatbush fanatics don't need no reason.
Leave us go root for the Dodgers,
Rodgers.
That's the team for me.

Leave Us Go Root for the Dodgers by Dan Parker ©

This poem, which originally appeared in the New York Daily Mirror, was published again in 1956 in a superb book called The Fireside Book of Baseball.

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