You Shot Me
Tall Paul
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Now, Jim Thorpe of course He was a good athlete, all Around athlete, everything But you take the Olympic Fellows of today, you know That they practice Olympics Years around for several years But Jim Thorpe was out there Playing baseball. He didn't Try at all for the Olympics But Pop Warner got him up There and thought he should Make the Olympics. So he Gave him a trial in all those Events up there and he just Picked it up. Thorpe was his Own track coach. But then Anyway, he picked it up and Without any previous training See, stepping in and doing that He went over there and Set the world on fire. You Know, as an Olympic man The King of Sweden went Out there and greeted him He said, 'You're the greatest Athlete in the world.' Thorpe Said, thank you, King Pop Warner would later say Jim's performance at practice that day Was the greatest display of athletics he'd seen and He'd never see the same from another athlete From nineteen-o-seven to nineteen-o-eight The world of college football would feel Jim's weight He debuted in Philly versus undefeated Penn They blew 'em out twenty-six, six, that's fin They hadn't beat Harvard in the past ten games But they seen 'em this time and they ashed them flames No player went harder than the Thorpe last name At the drop of a dime changed a boring ass game Before the Indians it was all on the ground A game of brute force with no flare to be found They innovated put it in the air like Cheech Wouldn't be what it is without a cold ass neech The biggest box office team in the whole nation Forty five stacks now consider inflation Amateur so the coach ain't pay them Imagine that the main attract get Nathan Ten, two and one record in his second season Ran away from boarding school in the summer season Minor league baseball for some meager checks A common practice so athletes could cover debts But they used fakes names to get by the rules Can't be an amateur if your money's in the books A shady game that Jim Thorpe played with wolves He didn't know so when it mattered they would paint him crook He used his real name he didn't have a need to lie He never planned on going back to school to play for guy Homeward bound to Oklahoma to be with his fam A couple years and Warner had him come do it again Without him on the team the team was average Hyped his return as the return of a savage Ticket sales so the coach lived lavish Coat tail riding the goat's attraction Didn't miss a beat played through injury To once again beat another undefeated Harvard team Kicked the game winning field goal on a bad leg Even ran opponents over on a bad day Known to chuckle before a scuffle and punch Bar brawling with bullies eating their lunch Not only brute he was fast if you wanna run His co-star in track Lewis Tewanima Boarding school Natives made it to the Olympics Writers said he was lazy about his fitness He was on the ship running laps around the deck They were talking shit cause he was a Native threat Minutes before competition his shoes went missing So he had to wear a misfit pair for distance Still he won the gold in more than half of missions Critics doubted him and yet Jim had the vision Won the pentathlon and the decathlon The first Olympian ever to do it, little did he know he Had started a movement, four Olympics later Finally seen some improvement His world records stood for sixteen years Couldn't train year round like his modern day peers The King of Sweden gave him gold that he earned And said sir you're the greatest athlete in the world Upon his return stateside, the knickerbocker state Gave Jim a ticker tape parade ride Sports offers poured in by the dozen Plenty bread in the oven but he left it by the wayside Competitive to a fault Had unfinished business with squads he still wanted to halt Loyal to a fault Played ball for Pop when he could've put stacks in a vault Warner knew what it was He didn't want Jim to leave cause he would lose on them bucks He was a selfish old mug And when it came time to show love he just pulled out the rug Little did Jim know he was no real big bro The deal wasn't quid pro still ran like a big bull Skilled he killed West Point and took home the victory Natives beat Army it went down in history All American collegiate Champion The first to rush for three-thousand yards in it The news knew he played baseball for change And they hated a Native so they sure reported it Pop Warner let Jim take the fall Threw him under the bus even though he too knew Olympics committee was quick to strip Jim Of his medals and records they broke their own rules
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