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The Beautiful Game

from Buffalo by Jenner Fox

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Kick the ball with me
One more time
Kick the ball Daddy

Martin was born in England
With two left feet
The son of Irish immigrants

He’d get up early
To watch the weekend games
With bruised shins he’d come home late

And his Dad would say
“Martin," do your work
And put that bloody futbol away

But he’d sneak out to the stadium
Stare up at the lights
And hear them chanting his name

In the beautiful game
The beautiful game

He grew up fast
And he bought a one way ticket
Across the Atlantic to Michigan

For the promise of football
And an education
Away from nails and hammering

But he found snow instead of grass
And weight lifting
And the wrong football on TV

So he took his degree
And he moved down to Texas
To coach a high school soccer team

In the beautiful game
In the beautiful game

And that’s where I met him
He was well into balding
We were on the same men’s league team

And he’d give a half time speech
Every Sunday
To us half listening

It sounded like
Give it all you got
Give it everything
Cause this is everything to me

No other team got a half time speech
And I believed him
And I can still here him say

The beautiful game
The beautiful game

His dad would say
Find something else to do
Maybe football's not the thing for you
But he kept coming back to that 4-4-2

And David Beckham
And Michael Owen
And Rio Ferdinand
And Shaun Wright Phillips
And Steven Gerrard
And Frank Lampard
And Sir Bobby Charlton

And the beautiful game
And the beautiful game

After the cheers and the handshakes and the beers
Martin remains
And he sits with his back to the goal post
Looking almost
Like he’s always sat that way

He cracks a smile
And he lets his hand down
To feel the grass beneath
And he lingers
As he runs his fingers
Through the dirt and the dreams

Kick the ball with me
One more time
Kick the ball Daddy

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from Buffalo, released April 6, 2018

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Jenner Fox Sisters, Oregon

There is something that happens inside a good song. A tootsie roll can take you back to your elementary school playground; the voice of a toothless refrigerator man reminds you to say “I love you.” Jenner Fox tells the stories of people and places with unparalleled compassion and respect. His artful tone, poetry, and fluency on his guitar do something only the brave ones do: let us in. ... more

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