The Ninth Green Toast
Liner notes on the Celtic-metal arrangement built for a tavern-ballad about a golf outing scholarship.
The stories behind The Ninth Green Toast
- The Jig Under the Riff in 'The Ninth Green Toast' — Liner notes on the Celtic-metal arrangement built for a tavern-ballad about a golf outing scholarship.
- The Ninth Green Toast: A Scholarship Handed Over on the Grass — A Celtic-metal tavern ballad about the golf outing that sells out every year and ends with a check, in person, on the ninth green.
Lyrics
Sold out again before the spring came
in
Every seed is spoken,
let the round begin
Four songs drawn and the coffee still warm
Someone slicing clean into the neighboring farm
Laughing at the ones who can't find the green
Teeing off a full day before it convenes
Raise it up on the ninth green $500
plain and clean
Handed over no letter, no delay
A scholarship born on a, on a summer day
The old caddy shakes his head and grins
Somebody's ball just bounced off the bin
Sunburned necks and a scorecard torn
Still we tally what the outing's for
Raise it up on the ninth green
Five hundred dollars, plain and clean
Hand it over, no letter, no delay
A scholarship born on a summer day
Named for someone who isn't here
to see
The kid it helps says thank you
quietly
Not a trophy Not a plaque on a wall just a check on the
ground And that says it all
Raise it up on the ninth green
Five hundred dollars plain and clean
Hand it over, no letter, no delay
A scholarship born on a summer day
Raise it up, raise it up
Raise it up, raise it up
Oh, raise it up
