This has been an unbelievable year for the White Sox, who now head into the World Series. One of my favorite elements has been the resurrection of the old fight song from 1959, “Let’s Go Go Go White Sox” by Captain Stubby and the Buccanneers. Rousing, if redundant.
Now, I didn’t grow up here, and I wouldn’t have been alive in 1959 anyway, but I love these old kinds of fight songs. They alternate between football chants and beer hall polkas, and aren’t so aggressively in your face that you want to hit someone.
I remember when the Tigers won the World Series in 1968, the radio used to play “Go Get ‘Em Tigers” which had exactly the same feel as Captain Stubby. I remember every word of it, but haven’t bothered to hunt for it on the web. When the Tigers cease sucking, maybe I’ll look then.
Anyway, for Jim S., and anyone else who wants to annoy their kids with some schmaltz, I found the Go Go Go song here.