Big League (For Humboldt)

He was a kid, he'd be up at five

Take shots till eight and make the thing drive

Out after school and back on ice

That was his life

He was gon' play in the big league

Oh, oh, the big league

Not many way out of this cold, Northern town

You work in the mill and get laid in the ground

And if you're gonna jump, it'll be with the game

Real fast and tough is the only clear lane

To the big league

Oh, oh

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

Oh, oh, the big league

All the right moves when he turned eighteen

Ridin' to the game, ridin' with his team

Ridin' with the friends and ridin' for the dreams

Ridin' off to immortality in the big league

Oh, oh

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

Oh, oh

You never can tell what might come down

You never can tell when you might check out

You just don't know, no, you never can tell

Sometimes at night, I can hear the ice crack

It sounds like thunder as it rips through my back

Sometimes in the morning, I'll still hear the sound

Ice meets metal

Can't you drive me down to the big league?

Oh, oh

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

Oh, oh

You never can tell what might come down

You never can tell when you might check out

You just don't know, no, you never can tell

So do right to others like you do to yourself

In the big league

Oh, oh, the big league

Oh, oh, the big league