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Article: Like the Red Sox, the band the Dropkick Murphys on a winning streak with Boston tune
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- November 9, 2007
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Nora Guthrie was looking for artists to provide the music for some of her father Woody's unpublished lyrics that had been sitting in boxes for 30 years. So she took a tip from her teenage son and called a little known Irish-American punk band in the city.
Without that call six years ago, Boston's World Series victory parade would have sounded a lot different, because closer Jonathan Papelbon might have been dancing to another tune.
The Dropkick Murphys searched through Guthrie's lyrics and found one scribbled on a piece of yellow legal paper. Those words would become "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," the music behind Papelbon's now infamous jig and one of the most popular ...