I wrote the first half of this tune, while I was watching my son Greg's Boy
Scout troop play a softball game in the spring of 1991. The second half of
the tune was written by my son Mathew a few months earlier in February,
1991 when he was almost three years old. I typed in a chord progression
and let him scribble an eighth note melody over it using Vox. I later figured
out that these two melodies complemented one another,that they broke into
four parts like the four base path runs of a home run, and that they felt like a
brisk run around the bases.
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