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." (Apparently it's a live version. I don't think there is a studio version yet.)

I haven't actually heard the song yet, but two Chicago radio [1] stations [2] made reference to having played it this afternoon.

UPDATE:

Based on the discussion [3]at Bleed Cubbie Blue, it looks like 93.1 WXRT recorded a live version of the song at the Auditorium Theater at Roosevelt University and that is what they are playing.

Here is a link to a large MP3 of a live version [4] of the song, but you'll definitely want to have the lyrics handy when you listen to it. (via Jeff Vrabel [5]) If you have a better link, pass it on!

Here are the lyrics:

Someday We'll Go All the Way
by Eddie Vedder
via Carter's Baby Blog [6]

Yeah, don't let anyone say that it's just a game.
For I've seen other teams and it's never the same.
When you're born in Chicago, you're blessed and you're healed,
The first time you walk into Wrigley Field.
Our heroes wear pinstripes and heroes in blue, Give us the chance to feel like heroes too.
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.
Yeah, hold our heads high as the underdogs.
We are not fair-weather, but foul-weather fans.
Like brothers in arms, in the streets 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, I could never want more.
Someday we'll go all the way.
Yeah, someday we'll go all the way. (repeat)

And here's to the men and the legends we've known.
Teaching 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".
Or did he mean two hundred years?
In this same ballpark, our diamond, our jewel.
The home of our joy and our tears.
Keeping traditions, and wishes made new,
The place where our grandfathers' fathers, they grew.
The spiritual feeling if I ever knew.
And if you ain't been, I am sorry for you.
And when the day comes for that last winning run, and I'm crying and covered in 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: This is what I heard in the radio version. I've seen variations online from other performances.)

Apparently Vedder debuted the song at his live performances at the Auditorium Theater in August [7] 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).

Anyone have a quality link to the song? I haven't found much on the Google and all the Youtube videos of the concert have been removed.

Post a comment if you find it!

You can also enjoy Eddie's previous Cubbie hit [8].