I'm Shipping Up To Boston

Album: The Warrior's Code (2005)
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  • I'm a sailor peg
    And I've lost my leg
    Climbing up the top sails
    I've lost my leg

    I'm shipping up to Boston, whoa
    I'm shipping up to Boston, whoa
    I'm shipping up to Boston, whoa
    I'm shipping off to find my wooden leg

    I'm a sailor peg
    And I've lost my leg
    Climbing up the top sails
    I've lost my leg

    I'm shipping up to Boston, whoa
    I'm shipping up to Boston, whoa
    I'm shipping up to Boston, whoa
    I'm shipping off to find my wooden leg Writer/s: Alexander Barr, James Lynch, Ken Casey, Marc Orrell, Matthew Kelly, Woody Guthrie
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, SPIRIT TWO SMA, Word Collections Publishing
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Comments: 5

  • Alex Kulak from Mesa, AzAppeared on the Boston Lager commercials too.
  • Joel from New Lexington, OhI heard this in an ad for Brave
  • Ken from Philadelphia, PaMovies, good or bad one, are always improved by a great soundtrack. Even so, it is so rare that a perfect song and a perfect scene in a good movie has such a symbiosis like "The Departed" and "Shipping Up To Boston". Scorcese couldn't have chosen a better song for that scene if he lived to a be million years old, and I am sure he knows it.
  • Willie from Scottsdale, AzIt was also played at the NHL Winter Classic in 2009 (?) when the Bruins played the Flyers @ Fenway Park.
  • Will Sullivan from Boston, MaThis is yet another cool song. I like how the different music styles are blended together. This was also used in the film The Departed. One of Martin Scorcese's better films. (Not to take anything away from the likes of Mean Streets or Taxi Driver mind you). To be honest I am biased because of my Southie upbringing. I just wish they could have shot the entire thing in Boston but I quess thats the breaks sometimes. At any rate a good song and all.
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