# What's that song  they play at Fenway Park after a Red Sox homerun ?

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**Created:** [October 24, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-they-play-at-fenway-park-after-a-red-sox-homerun/270906 "2004-10-24T15:52:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-they-play-at-fenway-park-after-a-red-sox-homerun/270906/1 "2004-10-24T15:52:54Z")

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What’s the name of that song that they play at Fenway Park after a Red Sox homerun?

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-they-play-at-fenway-park-after-a-red-sox-homerun/270906/2 "2004-10-24T19:03:24Z")

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Moved to CS. Edited title for clarity.

**King Friday** , please post more considerately in the future. Thank you.

- **xash**  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-they-play-at-fenway-park-after-a-red-sox-homerun/270906/3 "2004-10-25T16:09:54Z")

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Not sure which one you mean, but immediately after the final out it’s the Standells’ “Dirty Water” (Oh, Boston, you’re my home!). Immediately after that, and before the game, it’s local barroom legends the Dropkick Murphys with their own update of “Tessie”, the theme song of the early-20th-century Sox. After the eighth it’s Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and its own singalong chorus - hey, that makes as much sense as “Cotton-Eyed Joe” in New York. At random times they’ll slip in “Brass Bonanza”, the wordless intro tune of the now-deceased Hartford Whalers hockey team, as a gesture to their Connecticut fans.