Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Big League

1988's "Victory Day"

When he was a kid, he'd be up at five
Take shots till eight, make the thing drive
Out after school, back on ice
That was his life, he was gonna play in the Big League
The Big League

Not many ways out of this cold northern town
You work in the mill and get laid in the ground
If you're gonna jump it will be with the game
Real fast and tough is the only clear lane to the Big League

My boy's gonna play in the Big League
My boy's gonna turn some heads
My boy's gonna play in the Big League
My boy's gonna knock 'em dead
The Big League

All the right moves when he turned eighteen
Scholarship and school on a big U.S. team
Out with his girl near Lake McClean
Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane
To the Big League

My boy's gonna play in the Big League
My boy's gonna turn some heads
My boy's gonna play in the Big League
My boy's gonna knock 'em dead

Never can tell what might come down
Never can tell how much you get
Just don't know, no you never can tell

Sometimes at night I can hear the ice crack
It sounds like thunder and it rips through my back
Sometimes in the morning I still hear the sound
Ice meets metal...
"Can't you drive me down to the Big League?"

My boy's gonna play in the Big League
My boy's gonna turn some heads
My boy's gonna play in the Big League
My boy's gonna knock 'em dead

Never can tell what might come down
Never can tell when you might check out
Just don't know, no you never can tell
So do right to others like you do to yourself
In the Big League

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[chickiegoalie1520]

this song rocks but u got to put in some more pictures to make it better and get more comments. the big leagues  GS

[1michelemichele1]

Nah, there's already an official video, and even if there wasn't: most of the people I know use YT as a kind of radio, they're not interested in videos.

I'd like to do a few clips, but movies are a huge amount of work (huge).

[ForeverWanderingxx]

I was watching a hockey game with my dad tonight, and Tom Cochrane played this song in memory of Luke Bourdon. He left out this verse:

All the right moves when he turned eighteen

Scholarship and school on a big U.S. team

Out with his girl near Lake McClean

Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane

To the Big League

because thats basically how Luke died. This song really hits home. Thanks for posting.

{Yes, it was a Canucks game.}

[78bunker78]

Hockeys anthem!

[ojicreewarcry]

great tune....canadian eh.

[kells115]

Haha i'm 19 and I'm rediscovering Tom cochrane! His music's so great! Ive listened to his music since I was little, and then I heard this song today on the radio (I refuse to tune into the Beat 94.5 to listen to today's shitty stuff on repeat) and blasted the music on the way to work, I couldn't help it :P tom cochrane really is underrated! Great music and fantastic voice :)

[KSK466]

GREAT SONG

[FellowWorker1905]

@xXNotiousXx31 -(odd name, that) swimming is not a sport, it's exercise.

[AliceTRoyal]

This song always makes me think of "Death of a Salesman".

[KingsFanSince95]

i dont ever want to know how painful it would be to lose your child like this... i think i would rather just die than go to my front door and be told your son has died in a car accident...

[pokemon2883]

my boys gonna turn some heads

[14truthisbeauty]

my boy is gonna knock 'em dead

[SnowbirdFlock]

@xXNotoriousXx31 I do watch them. You might wanna watch them too; swimming's considered the healthiest sport, and we swimmers don't get all those serious injuries that hockey players get. I love swimming!

[xXNotoriousXx31]

@SnowbirdFlock then go watch a swimming video you twat