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A BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS

He's just a blind man in the bleachers, a local hometown fan.

Sits in the bleachers way back in the stands.

He listens to the play by play just waiting to hear one name.

He wants to hear his son get in the game.

But the boys just not a hero, strictly second team.

But he runs for touchdowns in his daddy's favorite dreams.

He's going to be a star someday, though you might never tell,

but the blind man in the bleachers knows he will.

It's the last game of the season on a Friday night at home,

no one knows the reason why the blind man didn't come.

and his boy looks kind of nervous, sometimes turns around

and stares just as though he sees the old man sitting there.

the local boys are trying but slowly lose their will.

Another players down and out and carried from the field.

At halftime in the locker room the kid goes off alone,

and no one sees him talking on the phone.

And the games already started when he gets back to the team,

half the crowd hears the coach yell " where the heck you been!"

"Just gettin ready for the second half ," is all he'll say,

"cause now you got to let me in to play."

And without a word he turns and runs into the game.

and through the silence on the field the loud speakers call his name.

It'll make the local papers how the team came from behind to win

when they say him playing out his heart to win.

And when the game was over the coach asked him to tell who it was

he was thinking of who made him play so well.

"You know my dad was blind, he said, tonight he passed away.

It's the first time my father has seen me play...."

It's the last game of the season, on a Friday night at home...

David Gettes 1975 Atlantic Records