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Take Me Out to the Ball Game sheet music

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game lead sheet with chords
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for piano
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for winds and brass
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for strings
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for recorder
Take Me Out to the Ball Game lyrics

Scroll down for a lead sheet for Take Me Out to the Ball Game that includes the melody and chords, with versions of the song in seven different keys. There are also links to the song for piano, recorder, woodwind, brass, and string instruments.

The history of Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Take Me Out to the Ball Game is one of the best known songs in the United States, and is sung at almost every baseball game in the middle of the seventh inning. It was composed in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer who were Tin Pan Alley musicians based in New York. Ironically, neither of them had been to a baseball game up to that point (reportedly, neither of them saw a game until more than twenty years after they wrote the song). However, Norworth saw a sign from a subway train car advertising “Baseball Today - Polo Grounds,” and he was inspired to write the poem.

Von Tilzer set the words to music, and the song became a big hit on the vaudeville circuit. Despite its popularity, it was not played at baseball games until the mid 1930s. Usually, when the song is played at games, the only part that is sung is the chorus, which is shown in the sheet music below.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game for band instruments
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for string instruments
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for piano
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for recorder

Take Me Out to the Ball Game for flute
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for oboe
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for clarinet
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for bassoon
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for alto saxophone
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for tenor saxophone
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for trumpet
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for French horn
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for trombone
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for tuba

Take Me Out to the Ball Game for violin
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for viola
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for cello
Take Me Out to the Ball Game for bass

Treble clef versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game:

In the key of A
In the key of B flat
In the key of C
In the key of D
In the key of E flat
In the key of F
In the key of G

Bass clef versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game:

In the key of A
In the key of B flat
In the key of C
In the key of D
In the key of E flat
In the key of F
In the key of G

Alto clef versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game:

In the key of A
In the key of B flat
In the key of C
In the key of D
In the key of E flat
In the key of F
In the key of G