| We were raised in a bad neighbourhood | 
| Yes, we were | 
| I got stabbed and love | 
| Didn’t look so good, no | 
| Sister Johnson lived two blocks away | 
| Did I tell ya? | 
| Gave me some advice the other day | 
| What did she say? | 
| She said, Sam | 
| You’re just like a ball | 
| You gotta break it hard | 
| Protect it from harm | 
| You got to make the rest-up | 
| When you hit the ball | 
| Knock it out of the park, mmmmm | 
| Cause a single will put you | 
| In the dark now | 
| When you swing, swing, swing | 
| For the pitcher, Lord | 
| Hitting in a double play | 
| Just don’t make no sense | 
| Love her like a baseball game | 
| I been told, tell 'em son | 
| You don’t win by getting on the base | 
| Honey, you got to make the score, good God | 
| You might put another man up | 
| But you got to go to bat, yeah | 
| Don’t you try to swing for a single | 
| She won’t go for that | 
| Hey, hey | 
| Make sure you don’t be fakin' | 
| When you say you gonna quit her | 
| Yeah, yeah | 
| You might know your very next friend | 
| Might be her pinch hitter | 
| Yeah, yeah, oh, Lord | 
| Might be her pinch hitter | 
| Baby, yeah | 
| Darling your kisses | 
| Have got to have that spark | 
| And when you do your lovin' baby | 
| You got to knock it out of the park | 
| Look, when you swing, swing | 
| Swing for the pitcher | 
| Putting in a double play y’all | 
| Just don’t make no sense, good God | 
| Hit it, knock it out of the park | 
| Hit it, love her like a baseball game | 
| My, my, my, my baby | 
| You might not know about it all | 
| Hit it, got to knock it out of the park | 
| My, my, my baby | 
| You got to play to win y’all | 
| Hit the ball | 
| Got to make the score, yeah | 
| Hit it, knock it out of the park | 
| Get a hold on | 
| Knock it out of the park | 
| Hit it… |