From the recording Family Portraits (Volume 2)
A guitar jangle drive ode to the love of football.
Lyrics
The Beautiful Game
The Dutch and the Scots
Like
The round ball
Inevitable
I’d follow the example of my kinfolk And
Fall in love with…
The game
That Pele played and named
The Beautiful Game
Is in my
DNA
Despite the saying
The rugger-buggers quote
“Gentlemen, please…”
The thrill of chasing the ball
11 men attack and defend
The goal to score
The crowd, it roars
Erupts with love for
The beautiful game
The Welsh, the Cornish and Normans
They like the oval
Ball
Don’t worry
Won’t hold it
Against you at all
Strange how games we play
Depends on where we’re raised
Place
The accident of birth
So what’s the point
Debating
Which sport enjoys the more intrinsic worth?
The thrill of chasing the ball
11 men attack and defend
The goal to score
The crowd, it roars
Invest their hopes in
The beautiful game
Rinus Michels and Johan Cruijff
Played Total Football
Pele and Maradonna
Took it to the next level
The thrill of chasing the ball
11 men attack and defend
The goal to score
The crowd, it roars
Invest their hopes
The beautiful game
Pass, pass, pass
Across the grass
Like Pythogoras
Triangles shape
The beautiful game