Cubs in Five
Lyrics
They're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon
And the Canterbury Tales will shoot up to the top of the bestseller list
And stay there for 27 weeks
And the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league
And the Tampa Bay Bucs will make it all the way through January
And I will love you again
I will love you, like I used to
I will love you again
I will love you, like I used to
The stars are gonna spell out the answers to tomorrow's crosswords
And the Phillips Corporation will admit that they've made an awful mistake
And Bill Gates will single-handedly spearhead
The Heaven 17 revival
And the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league
And the Tampa Bay Bucs will take it all the way to the top
And I will love you again
I will love you, like I used to
And I will love you again
I will love you, like I used to
Banter
- Audience Baby [adorably but also loudly]: cubs in five!!! cubs in five!!!
JD: You magnificent young person, we don't know that one as a group. [laughing]
JD (off mic): Do we have time to [plus??] that? Alright, we'll try for Cubs in Five.
JD: We haven't actually played this as a trio more than once or twice, so I can't make you any promises. If this one's going out on the broadcast, maybe you guys might wanna cut to a, ya know, 'you're listening to NPR' or something like that. Like, major funding for NPR is provided by...
Audience Not-Baby: THE JOHN T AND CATHERINE C MACARTHUR FOUNDATION!!!!
[laughing]
JD: I wrote this song in 1995. The Cubs hadn't won a series then, and they still haven't done it. [the curator of this website lived in Chicago when the Cubs did in fact win in 2016, and did in fact blast this song a lot.]
[song]
JD: Thank you very much. Don't tell the others that the way to get your request played in a band that's two-thirds dads is to bring your child to the show. (2013-07-26 Newport Folk Festival)
Live Performances
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