Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Every building same height
Every street a straight line
Team colors, yellow and blue
Cheerlead single-file
Perfect smiles, unaffected
And you won't forget
Our colors blue
No, you won't forget it
Twenty miles westward
Home of the Redbirds
Team colors crimson, blue
Open up your purses
For the boys who reimburse us
With a goal-line stand
On fourth and two
And that goal-line stand, ha!
Summer's dry and fallow
Reservoirs are shallow
Spillways unexposed
It's never been inspected
When the government's elected
That the fields
Will turn to yellow, too (oooh)
Now the fields will turn...
Every street a straight line
Team colors, yellow and blue
Cheerlead single-file
Perfect smiles, unaffected
And you won't forget
Our colors blue
No, you won't forget it
Twenty miles westward
Home of the Redbirds
Team colors crimson, blue
Open up your purses
For the boys who reimburse us
With a goal-line stand
On fourth and two
And that goal-line stand, ha!
Summer's dry and fallow
Reservoirs are shallow
Spillways unexposed
It's never been inspected
When the government's elected
That the fields
Will turn to yellow, too (oooh)
Now the fields will turn...
Lyrics submitted by summerbabe, edited by embassyrow
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