Luther Green lived in the apartment above me. We smoked cigarettes on the stairs, tell me stories that the boys never hear. Like he found this sign, he moved North in 1949. On his 10th birthday daddy took him to town to the Robinson play. It was a picture perfect day, in the and the hate. He didnt understand why all those people say such awful things. His daddy pay no attention to them, turnaround and watch the man play. The one black man in the baseball field was better in way. My daddy if you wanna win in this world, you gotta beat em at the wrong game. Luther Jackson Green went to law in 1963. In the summer he worked in Alabama with Martin Luther King. He met a girl on a summer night; he fell hard when saw each others eyes. were people in town that really didnt like that he was black and she was white. They found her in the ditch, a little outside of town; some man was blastin about it, so Luther beat him down. He looked him in the eye, in his face and turned and walked away. He he was better than all the hate! He knew he was bigger all the pain! He knew that a time to fight and a time to walk away! He knew until he changed the rules, ohh they beat em at the wrong game! He never did lose feeling inside. You hear it in his voice; you could see it in his eyes. Luther moved out West to live, his wife passed away. He lives right next door to his son, so he can his grandchild play. Luther Jackson Green, watched election night me. We put a black man in the White House, a he never thought hed see. though he never cried, I could see tears in his eyes. He had dreamed about this moment, every day of his life. Yeah Luther that night in his sleep, but he lived long enough to see, America become the kind of place he always it to be. He said you could never forget the day, that we em at the wrong game! Yeah just like Jackie Robinson. (Just Jackie Robinson!) Gotta be bigger all the hate! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta be better all the pain! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta a better way! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the game! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just like Robinson!) Gotta em at the wrong game! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) (Just like Robinson!)