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