connection is the baseball homophone from the previous contributor.

When he died in 1967, Woody Guthrie left behind thousands of unrecorded lyrics jotted down in notebooks or on stray scraps of paper, among them this undated ode to the Yankee Clipper himself. In 2000, just a year after DiMaggio died, Wilco and Billy Bragg set the words to a clattering banjo accompaniment and recorded it for “Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2.” The jittery banjo accompaniment and Jeff Tweedy’s aw-shucks vocals perfectly complement Guthrie’s rambunctious wordplay, which celebrates Joltin’ Joe as an American monument on par with the Grand Coulee Dam.