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Papelbon's Jig

Nora Guthrie was looking for artists to provide the music for some of her father Woody's unpublished lyrics that had been sitting in boxes for 30 years.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 tunes off the soundtrack to "The Departed," the Oscar-winning, Boston-based mobster film. "They liked this little ditty, this four-line ditty, not one of Woody Guthrie's greatest lyrics, but it had the word Boston in it," Nora Guthrie said. "They took it and created this masterpiece." "Out of nowhere, we're getting a chance to turn this into something bigger," said singer-guitarist James Lynch. "It opened up doors to us that never would have happened." "Shipping Up" has taken on a life of its own thanks to Papelbon's jigs. Before the start of the parade, the band presented Papelbon with a kilt.
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