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Eddie Vedder Releases Cubs Tribute Song
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Now that we're on the verge of a Cubbie Clinching as early as Thursday, Pearl Jam frontman and lifelong Cubs fan Eddie Vedder has written, recorded and released his tribute song, "Someday We'll Go All the Way."
I haven't actually heard the song yet, but two Chicago radio stations made reference to having played it this afternoon. Here are the lyrics:
Someday We'll Go All the Way
by Eddie Vedder
via Carter's Baby Blog
Yeah, don't let them say that it's just a game.
Well, I've seen other teams and it is never the same.
When you go to Chicago, you're blessed and you're healed, The first time you walk into Wrigley Field.
Heroes with pinstripes and heroes in blue, Give us the chance to feel like heroes do.
Whether we'll win and if we should lose, we know Someday we'll go all the way.
Yeah, someday we'll go all the way.
We are one with the Cubs, with the Cubs we're in love.
Hold our heads tall as the underdogs.
We are not fair-weather, but foul-weather fans.
Like brothers in arms, in the suites and the stands.
There's magic in the Ivy and the old scoreboard.
The same one I stared at as a kid keeping score.
In a world full of greed, we could never want more.
Someday we'll go all the way.
Yeah, someday we'll go all the way.
Here's to the men and the legends we've known.
Giving us faith and giving us hope.
United we stand and united we'll fall
Down to our knees the day we win it all.
Yeah Ernie Banks said, "oh, let's play two".
I think he meant two hundred years.
Playing at Wrigley, our diamond, our jewel.
The home of our joy and our fears.
Keeping traditions, and wishes anew,
The place where our grandfathers' fathers they grew.
The spitual feeling if I ever knew.
And when the day comes for that last winning run, and I'm crying and covered with beer.
I look to the sky and know I was right today.
Someday we'll go all the way.
Yeah, someday we'll go all the way.
Apparently Vedder debuted the song at his live performances at the Auditorium Theater in August as a birthday present to Ernie Banks. Now that local radio stations have picked it up, I'm sure it will be played ad nauseum when Cubs fever reaches its blistering crescendo tomorrow (or later this week).
I just recorded this off of XRT. last time I recorded a song off of radio, I think it was Who You Are. played the hell out of that tape.
intro: http://www.sendspace.com/file/0qp8jy
song: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gbiyvh
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