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You've Gotta Have Heart    (1955)

Coach:
[Spoken]
See boys, that's what I'm talking about. Baseball is only one half skill
The other half is something else.....something bigger!

You've gotta have....heart
All you really need is heart
When the odds are sayin' you'll never win
That's when the grin should start
You've gotta have hope, mustn't sit around and mope
Nothin' half as bad as it may appear
Wait'll next year and hope.

When your luck is battin' zero, get your chin up off the floor.
Mister, you can be a hero, you can open any door.
There's nothin' to it, but to do it

You've gotta have heart
Miles and miles and miles of heart
Oh, it's fine to be a genius of course
But keep that ol' horse before the cart
First you've got to have heart!

Rocky:
A great slugger, we haven't got!
Smokey:
A great pitcher, we haven't got!
Sohovic:
A great ball clue, we haven't got!
All:
What've we got?

We've got heart
All you really need is heart
When the odds are sayin', you'll never win
That's when the grin should start

We've got hope
We don't sit around and mope
Not a solitary sob do we heave
Mister 'cause we've got hope.

Rocky:
We're so happy, that we're hummin'.

All:
Hmm, Hmm, Hmm

Coach:
That's the heart-y thing to do.

Smokey:
'Cause we know our ship will come in!

All:
Hmm, hmm, hmm

Sohovic:
So it's ten years over due!

All:
Hoo, hoo, hoo.

We've got heart
Miles and miles and miles of heart
Oh it's fine to be a genius of course
But keep that old horse before the cart

Smokey:
So what the heck's the use of cryin'?

Coach:
Why should we curse?

Sohovic:
We've got to get better......

Rocky:
....'cause we can't get worse!

All:
And to add to it; we've got heart
We've got heart
We've got heart!

Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.
Recorded by Benny van Buren.
From "Damn Yankees".

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