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Eddie Vedder Releases Cubs Tribute Song
156 ReadsPublished Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 @ 5:53 PM by Matt Paolelli

THIS JUST IN:


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.


(Note: I've found other posts with slightly different words in some places, but this version seemed the most complete.)

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).
"Please help me to help you, help yourself." EV
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  • lowlight10lowlight10 Posts: 619
    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

    enjoy, and go cubbies!
    -


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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 93,702
    lowlight10 wrote:
    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

    enjoy, and go cubbies!

    thank you so much! :)
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Listening to it now....thanks alot! Sounds great...Ed can sing the abc's to a generic guitar rhythm and it'll still sound amazing.
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  • Dissident67Dissident67 Posts: 570
    lowlight10 wrote:
    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

    enjoy, and go cubbies!


    this is great thanks so much
    "Change don't come at once, it's a wave, building before it breaks"
  • teflonsteveteflonsteve Posts: 275
    thanks for the upload
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I really want to like this, but I have a commitment to the south side..
  • FirecloudFirecloud Posts: 516
    so, so cool. Thanks a lot for the upload.
  • screamingPJscreamingPJ Posts: 54
    Does anyone know when this was recorded? Was this from the performance at Chicago 2? It sure sounds like it.
  • GivenToJam88GivenToJam88 NJ Posts: 1,187
    thank you so much
    2006: 5/28
    2008: 6/19, 6/24, 6/25
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  • giventofly0812giventofly0812 Posts: 218
    thats sick, why couldnt he do this for my yankees
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    giventofly0812 wrote:
    thats sick, why couldnt he do this for my yankees
    Is that sarcasm? lol..
  • giventofly0812giventofly0812 Posts: 218
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Is that sarcasm? lol..
    ]
    not at all, maybe we would start winning again if he did
    E. Rutherford 6/03/06
    Camden 6/19/08
    Newark 5/18/10
    MSG 5/20/10
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    giventofly0812 wrote:
    ]
    not at all, maybe we would start winning again if he did
    And how many World Series have the Yankees won?.. in your lifetime???

    Try winning again after 100 years of not winning..

    ;)
  • giventofly0812giventofly0812 Posts: 218
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    And how many World Series have the Yankees won?.. in your lifetime???

    Try winning again after 100 years of not winning..

    ;)
    i understand that view, just, we all need to win, especially when you have a 200 million dollar payroll and the most non-clutch player in the league in A-rod
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  • OttOtt Posts: 403
    I can't stop listening to it.

    I love this:
    The spiritual 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.
    \

    Cause I will be a blubbering idiot. That HBO special tore me the fuck up.

    Ott
    'Give me some music; music, moody food/ of us that trade in love'
    -Shakespeare
  • rupy017rupy017 Posts: 249
    Thanks for the link. I was at the concert. I believe that's the one from Night 2.
    I have a question. May be dumb, but I don't want to run into any legal problems. Is it OK for me to download that and burn it to a CD? Thanks for any help.
  • howetzermanhowetzerman Posts: 48
    I guess this must mean that at least that show, maybe even more were professionally recorded. cross fingers.
    "He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share,
    His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere" GTF

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  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,613
    Awesome song, nice job by Eddie!

    Too bad his Cubs are going to suffer another year of misery when they lose to the Dodgers in the playoffs this year...
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  • spatspat Posts: 644
    do i smell a christmas single?
    My favorite Pearl Jam song: "Corporate Greed Boat Asshole Behind a Counter in the Oval Office"
  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    it debuted at the Vic last year, but Ed said at his Chi town shows this year that he was recording it to be released with proceeds to go to local charities, and that's when he shared the Ernie Banks story, which is incredible by itself, to have Mr Cub ask you to write a song and come up with what Ed did is quite a feat, not that I'm surprised.
    "Music, for me, was fucking heroin." eV (nothing Ed has said is more true for me personally than this quote)

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  • rupy017rupy017 Posts: 249
    rupy017 wrote:
    Thanks for the link. I was at the concert. I believe that's the one from Night 2.
    I have a question. May be dumb, but I don't want to run into any legal problems. Is it OK for me to download that and burn it to a CD? Thanks for any help.


    Anybody?
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    spat wrote:
    do i smell a christmas single?
    Not after the Cubs choke.. :D
  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,902
    if you don't sell it I think you are gonna be fine ;-)
  • rupy017rupy017 Posts: 249
    Thanks.
    That's what I figured. I just wanted someone's opinion.
  • PJammer4lifePJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,656
    walkunafraid wrote:
    Awesome song, nice job by Eddie!

    Too bad his Cubs are going to suffer another year of misery when they lose to the Dodgers in the playoffs this year...


    My thoughts exactly...
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  • parintachin73parintachin73 Posts: 742
    Thanks for the upload!
  • PJPATPJPAT Posts: 399
    On XRT again now
    "All the money you make will never buy back your soul" Bob Dylan

    "I need honesty, I need truth, and I need hope...I need it! That's what music means to me." EV
  • Riot_MacRiot_Mac Posts: 473
    XRT is playing it right now!
    "hear my name, take a good look, this could be the day."
  • rybesrybes Posts: 136
    great song to hear live! awesome sing along
  • BEnglish017BEnglish017 Posts: 455
    thanks for the upload! thanks for the song ed! GO CUBS!!
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