Chords for A Tribute To Steve Goodman. Go Cubs Go!!

After every home win, Cubs fans stand up and sing.
It's become a tradition, along with hanging the W flag.
But where did that Go Cubs Go song really come from?
NBC's Mike Leonard takes a look. _ _
[D] _ _ [C] He [G] hasn't been to Wrigley Field in nearly a quarter of a century.
Yet Steve Goodman [F#] has a bigger than ever voice in the success of [Am] his hometown baseball [C] team.
_ _ His singing voice and his lyrics.
_ Booming through the loudspeakers after every home victory.
[F#] Hey Chicago, what do you say?
The Cubs are going to [N] win today.
_ Corny?
[C#] The whole [C] story is corny if it weren't true.
[G] The story of a Chicago [C]-born singer-songwriter who loved his [G] team despite its history of losing.
[C] And then he said, play that lonesome losers tune.
Goodman [G#m] sang that song for me in [E] October of [C] 1983.
_ [A] Another year in which the Cubs failed to make it into the _ [D] postseason.
Well Mike, it was the [G] dying Cub fans' last request, [A] so here it is.
Do [C] they still play the blues in Chicago?
And even though [F] he claimed no autobiographical [F#m] connection, [C] Goodman himself was [F] dying of leukemia.
We all [A] have just so much time here.
It just made me use [E] _ [G] what time I had in a [C] more efficient way, perhaps.
[F] Singing goodnight America, [C] how are ya?
36-year-old Steve Goodman died on September 20, [G] 1984,
just four days before his beloved Cubs clinched the team's first [C] entry into postseason play in 39 [F#] years.
He left [G] behind a wife and three [C] daughters, a musical legacy of great [F] note, _ _ _
[C] and one more Cubs song.
They got the power, they got the speed.
A song of victory.
[F] I'm gonna be the best in the National League.
A song written [Gm] by Goodman shortly before his death in [G] 1984,
and shelled for two decades until a team official [C] decided on a whim to [C] play it at the ballpark.
_ Where's the night go, Cubs go.
What happened then was the Cubs started winning, and pretty soon in June the crowds were staying.
_ The Cubs can be [G] up by 13 runs, and where you would see the exodus in many other [C] stadiums, nobody's leaving.
Can't miss [Fm] it.
Bob [G] Vorwald's popular book about the Cubs, their fans, and the neighborhood ballpark that Steve Goodman [C] called home
taps into Wrigley Field's special atmosphere, elevated now by a winning [G] team and a winning song,
sung by the diehard fan [C] who died before it all happened.
Hey Chicago, [F] why don't you escape and come for Donald in the face.
It's wonderful that Steve Goodman's memory is alive [A#] in the ballpark every day when the Cubs [G] win.
And not just at the [C] ballpark.
We got the power, we believe. _ _ _
If you were choosing the message of this story, [D] what would the message be?
Belief.
That hope is [C] alive.
_ I'm the law of averages, eventually.
_ Eventually.
Base hit, grab [F] ball, Guantanamo score, Cubs win!
[G] Well this is the year when the Cubs are here.
_ _ [C] So come on down and really be here.
I [A] guess sometimes great things happen [G] for really great people.
Go [C] Cubs go!
For today, Mike [F] Leonard, NBC News,