Big League

Tom Cochrane & Red Rider

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Intro: D Dsus4

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When he was a kid, he'd be up at five
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Take shots till eight, make the thing drive
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Out after school, and back on ice
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That was his life, he was gonna play in the big league
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Ooooh oh, the big league

Not many ways out of this cold northern town
You work in the mill and get laid in the ground
If you're gonna jump it will be with the game
Real fast and tough is the only clear lane to the big league

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 My boy's gonna play in the big league
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 My boy's gonna turn some heads
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 My boy's gonna play in the big league
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 My boy's gonna knock 'em dead
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Ooooh oh, the big league

All the right moves when he turned eighteen
Scholarship and school on a big U.S. team
Out with his girl near Lake Mcclean
Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane
To the big league

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

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Never can tell what might come down
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Never can tell how you might check out
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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 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

Never can tell what might come down
You never can tell when you might check out
Just don't know, no, you never can tell
So do right to others like you do to yourself
In the big league
In the big league
The big league