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Take Who Takes You

by Fred Gardner

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At the start of a pick-up basketball game, one team brings the ball up the court and the team playing defense decides who will guard who. Usually the team on offense decides to "take who takes you."

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Ice Man, Magic, Bird and McAdoo
Cliff, Kevin, Jamie and Lou
In the real world, just like in the schoolyard game
Take who takes you!

Somedays no way they're gonna fall
You got to play good 'D' and move the ball
in the real world just like i the schoolyard game
Don't call every call

You may be with the white folks up in Eugene
Or with the bloods on one-thirty-fifth
You will fit right into any new scene
If you know who to run with

It's you take who takes you
such a simple principle and oh so true
in the real world just like in the schoolyard
You take who takes you

Any pick-up game I ever been to
Any pick-up scene of any kind
You will find they're easy to get into
if you only just bear in mind that

You take who takes you
An Eastern philosophy and very true
in the real world just like in the schoolyard
You take who takes you!

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released February 8, 2015
words and music Fred Gardner
Produced by Camilo Landau

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