The Pecan Park Eagle

BEES DO IT!
Exception to the Rule:
The Boston Bees
1936-1940

Ode To The 2015 Houston Astros

(A hopeful parody, and not a mere parody of that slippery slope that so often devours Houston Hope. If you are familiar with the verse/chorus transitional melodies, this little springtime aspirational expression is  singable to the score from Cole Porter’s classic musical call to action, “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love”.)

By Bill McCurdy

Birds do it
Bees do it
Orioles from Baltimore with fleas do it
Let’s do it, Astros, LET’S WIN THIS YEAR

Out in the west
All the best do it
Dodgers, Angels, A’s and even Snakes do it
Let’s do it, LET’S WIN THIS YEAR

The Yanks in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Bums
Pirates and Reds do it,
Only Cubs live on crumbs

Some smaller teams
Without means do it
Bochy Giants out on Frisco Bay do it
Let’s do it, LET’S WIN THIS YEAR

Phillies and Twins
In rare sins do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let’s do it, LET’S WIN THIS YEAR

Tigers and Mets, ‘gainst all bets do it
Shocks the world every time
Florida fish do it
Then return to their slime.

In the Midwest, Cardinal crests do it
Two birds on a bat says clearly, “Let’s do it”
Let’s do it too, Houston
LET’S WIN THIS YEAR

In shallow shoals
Padre soles do it
D Rays in the privacy of bowls do it
Let’s do it, LET’S WIN THIS YEAR

Now if the birds and the bees and the trees can do it
Time for us to sneeze and squeeze and just plain do it
LET’S DO IT, ASTROS
LET’S WIN THIS YEAR