It was tough for me to decide where to put this blog-wise. The lyrics of the song were written by Woody Guthrie - but the music is completely Dropkick Murphys. They wrote it. Ken Casey of the band found a fragment of these lyrics while looking through some Woody Guthrie archives.... and built a whole song around it.
It's likely Woody didn't release this as a single. He wrote a lot of stuff he didn't release. What is clear that the Dropkick Murphys turned this not only into a huge hit song - but a de facto anthem for all Boston sports teams.
The band, formed in 1996 in Quincy, Massachusetts, still exists, and they are presently touring. They're coming to a town near us, and I think we're going to try to go. At any rate, here they are in 2022 (missing Al Barr, so Ken Casey had to do all the vocals himself), performing the song for an eager crowd.
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