Tessie

[Intro]

"And the Boston Red Sox are the world champions! For the first time in 86 years, the Red Sox have won baseball's world championship! Can you believe it?"

[Verse 1]

Tessie is the Royal Rooters rally cry

Tessie is the tune they always sung

Tessie echoed April through October nights

After serenading Stahl, Dinneen and Young

[Verse 2]

Tessie is a maiden with a sparkling eye

Tessie is a maiden with a love

She doesn’t know the meaning of her sight

She’s got a common full of love

[Verse 3]

And sometimes when the game is on the line

Tessie always carried them away

Up the road from third base to Huntington

The boys would always sing and sway

[Chorus]

Two, three, four

Tessie, Nuf Ced McGreevey shouted

We’re not here to mess around

Boston you know we love you madly

Hear the crowd roar to your sound

Don’t blame us if we ever doubt you

You know we couldn’t live without you

Tessie, you are the only only only

[Verse 4]

The Rooters showed up at the grounds one day

They found their seats had all been sold

McGreevey led the charge into the park

Stormed the gates and put the game on hold

[Verse 5]

The Rooters gave the other team a dreadful fright

Boston’s tenth man could not be wrong

Up from third base to Huntington

They’d sing another victory song

[Chorus]

Two, three, four

Tessie, Nuff Ced McGreevy shouted

We’re not here to mess around

Boston, you know we love you madly

Hear the crowd roar to your sound

Don’t blame us if we ever doubt you

You know we couldn’t live without you

Tessie, you are the only, only, only

[Verse 5]

The Rooters gave the other team a dreadful fright

Boston’s tenth man could not be wrong

Up from third base to Huntington

They’d sing another victory song

[Chorus]

Two, three, four

Tessie, Nuff Ced McGreevy shouted

We’re not here to mess around

Boston, you know we love you madly

Hear the crowd roar to your sound

Don’t blame us if we ever doubt you

You know we couldn’t live without you

Tessie, you are the only, only, only

[Outro]

Don’t blame us if we ever doubt you

You know we couldn’t live without you

Boston, you are the only only only

Don’t blame us if we ever doubt you

You know we couldn’t live without you

Red Sox, you are the only only only