# Another ID this song thread...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 15, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-thread/817954 "2018-07-15T18:08:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-thread/817954/21 "2018-07-17T07:41:02Z")

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> [@jaycat](#):
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> But, why? (I would’ve chosen [Ugarte](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/characters/nm0000048?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7), if anything).

I’m afraid you’ll have to ask her…

[QUOTE= **Snowboarder Bo** I’m very glad you found this because it saved me from doing a lot of work; this would have taken me a while to come up with, I’m guessing.

Good job! [/QUOTE]

You say that it would have taken you a lot of time to find the answer but you don’t say that it would have been impossible. Considering that it’s a somewhat confidential hit from over 30 years ago in a country that is (presumably) not your own, how would you have gone about finding it ? Do you have access to a secret mega-database of songs ?

(Because, I’d be interested…) 😃 .

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**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-thread/817954/22 "2018-07-17T11:40:34Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> This is a very difficult one, even though everyone knows the song.
> 
> Years ago, the NYS museum had an exhibit on baseball with a film. At the end of the film, they played someone’s rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
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> Only it was off.
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> Instead of the first two lines being “Take me out to the ballgame/take me out with the crowd,” they were “Me out to the ballgame take/Me out with the crowd buy.” In other words, the words were sung one note too early: “me” was sung as the first note, “out” as the second, etc.
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> It struck me as incredibly difficult to sing the song that way – if you try it, you end up matching things up to the way it’s supposed to be sung.
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> It was a male singer, with a simple arrangement (not many instruments).
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> Any ideas?

I’ve heard it done this way by several people, including the Reduced Shakespeare Company. There are a couple of YouTube videos of people doing it (search for the song title and “one word off” or “one note off”). Figuring out who did it first or who performed the particular version you heard would be a challenge, especially without a year reference.

ETA: The name popping up most frequently on YouTube is “Bill Haynes”. Never heard of him, but there you go.

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