I was inspired after tonight’s game. This makes no assumptions; this is in celebration (heh) of how far this team has come and the thrilling season they’ve given us so far!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34019814/October.mp3
I can’t get over, how the A’s are in games in October
How they never believe that it’s over
Never looking at yesterday
Oh how they made it
Guys were injured suspended and traded
Even though some believed it was over
We believed in our Oakland A’s
Hey hey hey
Bernie On, I just can’t get over
Bernie On, baseball in October
Bernie On, featuring my Oakland A’s
Bernie’in’, Bernie’in, do the Bernie Lean
These guys can swing it
Coco, Jonny and Seth how they bring it
Joshes, Brandons and Yo hitting homers
Spider Reddick with pies in the face
Aussie closer, he is raging his way through October
That rotation with rookies all over
Cook and Doolittle here to stay
Hey hey hey
Bernie On, I just can’t get over
Bernie On, baseball in October
Bernie On, featuring my Oakland A’s
And we go
Bernie On, I just can’t get over
Bernie On, baseball in October
Bernie On, featuring my Oakland A’s
Now we do the Bernie
Just because it’s funny
Just don’t fall over, dancing with Carly Rae, yow
And we go
Bernie On, I just can’t get over
Bernie On, baseball in October
Bernie On, featuring my Oakland A’s
And we go
Bernie On, I just can’t get over
Bernie On, baseball in October
Bernie On, featuring my Oakland A’s
Bernie on, and on and on
Bernie on, and on and on
Bernie on, and on and on
Bernie on, and on and on and on..
I would love it if one of you FKers (or someone you know) were to be inspired to set a photo collage or video to this. Caveat – this is a draft; the whole thing was done in 2.5 hours, so if you want to use it for anything and want better production quality, please let me know.
Heh. Nice job.
A filk — actually set to music?! You’ve raised the bar, my friend — nice jorb!
Love it, oblique! Pure joy.
Fabulous! This will be in my head all day now, and I’m okay with that. :)
This is FANTASTIC. I can’t stop smiling… baseball! Thanks, oblique!
(Ahaha — the next song that came up on my iTunes was the A’s “Anthem” from the 2008 commercials. Still great.)
Thanks! Just did a slight remix to take some of the shrillness out of the high falsetto notes..
I can’t give this a listen from the office today, and will be at the ballgame tonight, so I’ll try to tune in after that. The liyrics are fabulous, I can’t wait to hear them in full-throated glory!
It’s pretty frickin cool. I wish I could write more than two lines of something like this. The singing part ain’t ever happening of course.
Standing O!!!!!!
Seriously awesome job! I’m astounded that you were able to do that in a few hours, much less a few weeks.
No attempts to rhyme with “sober?”
I understand.
AAAAHH!! That’s a good one!!
That sounded great! I love EWF. Is it okay if I share this link with another board? It’s not a sports board but they have a sports forum.
I think most of the posters there only care about football but I still want to share it. Can I download for my computer too?
I did post the link and lyrics. Sorry, I got too excited. But if you want me to I can delete the post. Let me know. I don’t want to step on any toes.
Either way you guys did a great job on that song. I can’t hit those high notes when I try to sing along, but I’m trying more than ever now.
No problem at all to share – thank you, in fact! Glad you liked it!
Someone asked me for a remix with the vocals a little higher in the mix; I’m going to try to do that soon.
Along those same lines, would you mind if I share the link with KNBR? Mrs. Ice Cream listens to Murph & Mac on her way to work in the morning and says Paulie Mack(?) would definitely play it. (I won’t link it without your permission, though.)
Oh, that’d be awesome! Let me get a better mix together; I should have it in about an hour.
OK, critter and Ice Cream, I messed with the mix a little, and I think it’s better. Please feel free to share if it sounds alright to you; additional suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
That does make the lyrics much clearer. Thank you!
Great! Thanks for the feedback!
Kudos! This is great work.
Soundtrack to my day.
You saw this was retweeted by the a’s account
They should send it to CSN so they can lead off the pregame show with it.
I did – that was cool!! I’d love for it to be useful somewhere, whether that’s for someone to make a video or as bumper music someplace, whatever!
I’ve pretty much got this on a constant loop!!!
By the way, oblique, I’ve had this in my head pretty much constantly since I listened to it… so, for about 2 days. It’s so amazing.
Then my work here is done! Seriously, I love that y’all like it – I had so much fun recording it.
Same. Serious Earwig Oblique. Wish to god my chops were where they would need to be to get some folks together to provide a live horn section for it.
Oh wow, this is tremendous. Thanks, man.
And someone (with talent, which automatically excludes me) needs to make this into a video.
Late to the party, but man, really well done. Thanks!
I’m even later to the party than FSU, but WOW! That was all flavors of awesome! :-D
This is great! Excellently done
In Rite Aid getting earphones because I left mine at home. Guess what’s playing? I’m taking it as a good omen.
Call Me Maybe?
And again on the radio this morning. I generally run into that song maybe once or twice in a whole year, all of a sudden EW&F is around every corner.
Well this is awesome!