Big League

When he was a kid, he'd be up at 5

Take shots till 8 and make the thing drive

Out after school and 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

And if you're going to jump it will

Be with the game

Real fast and tough is the only

Clear lane to the big league

My boy's going to play in the big league

My boy's going to turn some heads

My boy's going to play in the big league

My boy's going to knock 'em dead

The big league

All the right moves when he turned 18

Scholarship and school on a big US team

Out with his girl near lake McClean

Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane

In the big league

My boy's going to play in the big league

My boy's going to turn some heads

My boy's going to play in the big league

My boy's going to knock 'em dead

Never can tell what might come down

You never can tell how you might check out

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 going to play in the big league

My boy's going to turn some heads

My boy's going to play in the big league

My boy's going to knock 'em dead

Never can tell what might come down

You never can tell how 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

The big league

The big league