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  1. "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, with lyrics written by folk singer Woody Guthrie. The original version of the song was released in 2004 on Give 'Em the Boot IV and was re-recorded for their certified gold selling 2005 album, The Warrior's Code.

  2. Jul 6, 2021 · published 6 July 2021. Dropkick Murphys' I’m Shipping Up To Boston was a collision of Celtic punk, legless pirates, and beyond-the-grave lyrics from American folk hero Woody Guthrie. (Image credit: Paul Harries) It was 2004, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys was at a loss for words.

  3. Jun 21, 2005 · Easily the band’s best known song. It first picked up momentum for its appearance in The Departed, and really took off when Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon chose it as his intro song...

  4. On January 1, 2010, the band gave a performance of "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" before the Boston BruinsPhiladelphia Flyers NHL Winter Classic, held at Boston's Fenway Park. Two months later on March 16, 2010, the band released their second live album, Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA .

  5. Songfacts®: This is Dropkick Murphys' take on a folk song written by Woody Guthrie. Guthrie was a very prolific writer, and many of his songs were never recorded. The Woody Guthrie archives have lyrics to thousands of his songs that are sometimes dusted off and recorded by modern artists, which is how Dropkick Murphys found them.

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  7. [Verse] I’m a sailor peg, and I’ve lost my leg. Climbing up the top sails, I lost my leg! [Chorus] I’m shipping up to Boston, whoa! I’m shipping off, to find my wooden leg! These simple yet powerful lyrics reflect the fighting spirit and tenacity that is often associated with Bostons Irish-American population. The Song’s Significance.

  8. " I'm Shipping Up to Boston " is a song by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, with lyrics written by folk singer Woody Guthrie. The original version of the song was released in 2004 on Give 'Em the Boot IV and was re-recorded for their certified gold selling 2005 album, The Warrior's Code.

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