THE YIDDISHE CUP FIGHT SONG
Yiddishe Cup’s singer, Irwin Weinberger, wrote a song about attending baseball games with his father. Irwin even mentioned The Rock in the song — Rocky Colavito. Guys are supposed to talk about sports, and drink when they get together. I know this isn’t always a fact. One Yiddishe Cup musician calls sports a “cult.”
The town is going ape-wire over the Cleveland Cavaliers again. Some of the guys don’t care.
Some of the guys do.
In 1997, when the Indians were in the World Series, Yiddishe Cup was playing Simchat Torah gigs, and we hid in the temple cloak room and caught bits of the action on a small portable TV.
Yiddishe Cup is not sports adverse. We play fight songs. Here are the fight songs you need to know in our part of the Midwest:
1. Ohio State’s “Hang On Sloopy” and “Fight The Team Across the Field.” Sometimes we hold off on “Hang On Sloopy” until the Buckeyes score. That’s the protocol. If you play “Hang on Sloopy” before the Bucks score, it’s bad luck.
2. Michigan’s “The Victors” is a biggie. Also, Michigan State, “On Wisconsin,” and the Pitt fight song, which is not the same as the Steelers’ song. Forget about Notre Dame –for a klez band.
Yiddishe Cup knows “Are You From Wooster?”:
If you’re from Oberlin or Denison or Wesleyan U.,
The Scots will take good care of you before they’re through.
Beisbol! 1957
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A version of this first appeared 6/3/09.
3 comments
Your guys’ repertoire is certainly too rough for my ears….
I am not a LeBron fan. I’m not a fan of the way he plays. He’s a great passer and distributor, but he often breaks down set plays for his team and creates one-on-one situations that end with him taking a long two-point jumper. To me, this is the embodiment of what is wrong with NBA, he just happens to be so good at it that it doesn’t matter. However, I have given up doubting the man and will be placing my money on the team from Cleveland.
You guys might have to learn the Kevin Durant blues.
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