Come Jimmy

Dedicated to Rev Jimmy Shelton
who about this time last year asked his daughter Melissa to find the Cedar Key basketball game on the TV.

Come Jimmy
by john clare

Come Jimmy, it's time you see
The team is loaded for tonight
we travel down to Cedar Key
Orville has the boys prepared
Missy can sit up here with me
Mamma will not mind.

Come Jimmy, it's time
When we get to Otter Creek Crossing
We can stretch our legs
Then down through Rosewood
and over those narrow bridges
to the old gym of native rock.

Come Jimmy, it's time you see
For tonight we play Cedar Key
They suit only seven to our ten
But never mind the odds
Those Sharks play as men
Never tiring in their full pressing job.

Come Jimmy, it's time you see
It's a long journey to Cedar Key
You can say a prayer for the boys
I know they need it bad
Devil's all full of youthful joys
I know you understand the lads.

Come Jimmy, it's time you see
The boys defeated Cedar Key
Orville coached his cigar out
We played on your prayer and a shout
Gideon's Demon's tumbling rock walls!

Come Jimmy, hurry you see
They block the bridge from Cedar Key
Have you seen Missy?
Comes Jimmy, carrying his little score keeper
It's a long journey from
Cedar Key.