(Homage to) Foul Play

This song is dedicated to the writers, inkers, and readers of EC Comics.
Warning: pretty gruesome at the end.

(Music style: country)

FOUL PLAY (in homage to EC Comics)

verse 1:
There on the pages
Of an ancient magazine
Some called it very clever
Some called it quite obscene

Chorus:
Play ball
The ref called
The midnight game began

And the shudders down the spines
of readers ran.

verse 2:
A greedy baseball player
Herbie Satten was his name
Would do just about anything
To be tops in his game

verse 3:
Ol' Bayville's greatest batter
They say was Jerry D.
Someday a really champion
They all said he would be

Chorus:
Play ball
The ref called
the midnight game began

And the shudders down the spines
of readers ran

verse 4:
When Jerry D stepped up to bat
He stumbled and fell dead
A heart attack was all it was
That's what the doc first said

verse 5:
But when he looked a second time
A poison he did find
And that is when the Bayviille team
Got vengeance in their minds

Chorus:
Play ball
The ref called
the midnight game began

And the shudders down the spines
of readers ran

Verse 6:
They lured Herbie Satten out
With promises of fame
And told him they knew what he did
At that fateful baseball game

Ol' Satten had nowhere to run
Now he's nowhere to be found
Unless you look a little closer
At the Bayville pitcher's mound

Alt Chorus:
Play ball
The ref called
the midnight game began

Played with the limbs...
...and the entrails of a man

This is a good progressing story and flows very well, and it's pulled off well too. Unique and totally unexpected. Nice work Elegant!

Not entirely mine, as stated. It is in homage to an episode of an old EC Comics. the story is worth a look. This song is dedicated to those who wrote it, in the same way as songs about Bilbo Baggins or the warrior Tyr.

Another "Casey at Bat"!!I'm very hip to EC Comics and the plight they went through.Being accused of causing crime with their comics is laughable,but the religious right and their Catholic League can censor anything they don't approve of.

Originally Posted by Doug Denslowe

Another "Casey at Bat"!!I'm very hip to EC Comics and the plight they went through.Being accused of causing crime with their comics is laughable,but the religious right and their Catholic League can censor anything they don't approve of.

Comics may or may not cause crime. But religion DEFINITELY causes WAR! I think that maybe all the comic book writers should get together and sue to ban religion. (LOL!)

Originally Posted by ElegantButler

Comics may or may not cause crime. But religion DEFINITELY causes WAR! I think that maybe all the comic book writers should get together and sue to ban religion. (LOL!)

I think we all should ban together and sue.At least to get it off our money!