This just in: Eddie releases cubs tribute song.

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edited September 2008 in The Porch
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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  • lowlight10
    lowlight10 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!
    -


    "In your case, I'll check my brain at the door and we'll start even, okay?"

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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,433
    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! :)
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 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.
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
    8/7/08, 6/9/09
  • Dissident67
    Dissident67 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"
  • teflonsteve
    teflonsteve Posts: 275
    thanks for the upload
    9/20/05 - Quebec City
    9/22/05 - Halifax
    6/19/08 - Camden 
    6/28/08 - Mansfield 
    9/07/11 - Montreal
    5/05/16 - Quebec City
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I really want to like this, but I have a commitment to the south side..
  • Firecloud
    Firecloud Posts: 516
    so, so cool. Thanks a lot for the upload.
  • screamingPJ
    screamingPJ Posts: 54
    Does anyone know when this was recorded? Was this from the performance at Chicago 2? It sure sounds like it.
  • GivenToJam88
    GivenToJam88 NJ Posts: 1,187
    thank you so much
    2006: 5/28
    2008: 6/19, 6/24, 6/25
    2009: 6/14 (EV), 10/27, 10/28
    2010: 5/17
    2011: 6/21 (EV), 6/22 (EV), 9/11, 9/12
    2012: 9/2
    2013: 10/15, 10/16, 10/19, 10/21, 10/22, 10/27, 11/23, 11/24
    2014: 10/19
    2016: 5/1, 5/2, 5/8
    2018: 8/20, 9/2, 9/4
  • giventofly0812
    giventofly0812 Posts: 218
    thats sick, why couldnt he do this for my yankees
    E. Rutherford 6/03/06
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    Newark 5/18/10
    MSG 5/20/10
    MSG 5/21/10
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    giventofly0812 wrote:
    thats sick, why couldnt he do this for my yankees
    Is that sarcasm? lol..
  • giventofly0812
    giventofly0812 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
    MSG 5/21/10
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean 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..

    ;)
  • giventofly0812
    giventofly0812 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
    E. Rutherford 6/03/06
    Camden 6/19/08
    Newark 5/18/10
    MSG 5/20/10
    MSG 5/21/10
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  • Ott
    Ott 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
  • rupy017
    rupy017 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.
  • howetzerman
    howetzerman 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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  • walkunafraid
    walkunafraid Posts: 2,655
    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...
    Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
  • spat
    spat Posts: 644
    do i smell a christmas single?
    My favorite Pearl Jam song: "Corporate Greed Boat Asshole Behind a Counter in the Oval Office"
  • beachdweller
    beachdweller 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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