Zevon, Warren - Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song) Lyrics

He saw that heavenly light.

Derek Boogaard will forever be the toughest hockey fighter ever💪💪

My 6 year old want to hear this every time we are going to hockey practice

The song is hilarious, but so damn poignant.

George Parros’s theme song!

I’m in big beaver rn fun fact

Always reminds me of the IHL back in the 70s. Then the movie “Slap Shot” came out. As a kid who grew up watching the Dayton Gems, I was the “anti-Buddy”. I wanted to be that goon on the gritty blue collar team. I was proud of my ejections, pentalty minutes and stitches in my lip. :D

I think this song is about Avery

This song sums up a lot of guys. Probert, Domi, Schultz, Grimson, Clark, Ray etc etc etc. Amazing song. God bless you Warren! I'll eat sandwiches in heaven with you someday :).

Does anyone else infer that Buddy dies at the end of the song, which explains why he saw that 'heavenly light' when he scored, and why it was his final season and his final night?

Only warren zevon could take me off a woody allen film

2019!!!

thanks for uploading

Dont forget guy ladomme and permateeth.

Putting on the foil coach, want some?

Great song Warren, There is another one called the Last Goon Goon (3rd Star) on You Tube , only for real hockey players🏒🏒🏒

At one time : Kevin Smith was going to make a movie based on this song!

"Enjoy every sandwich...."

Cool. :D

I-75 Big Beaver rd. Exit 69 Troy MI 248

Oh and keep your sticks on the Ice "Red Green"

Why does this make me cry?

This song succinctly captures why I prefer basketball.

So did he get his goal?

"There were Swedes to the left, Russians to the right but since this is hockey, not a black guy in sight.."



Sorry.

The Subban brothers would disagree with you

Puttin on the foil, you want some?

More like born out of a big beave...get it?

85 Morons.

i had a feeling that was Letterman in the background. Sounds like his usual instigator self.

Since no one else did,

Came here from Kevin Smith

Used to love to go to hockey games! We had the "River Frogs" (stupid name!) here in Louisville back in the 1980'sand mid 90's. Every game gloves and sticks flew in the air at least a couple of times. They even had a faux "living room" with couch, recliner, and end tables set up at one end of the rink and if they called your ticket number you got to sit there and watch the game and have your own waiter. They weren't very good, but it was fun! One night the company I worked for gave out free regulation size hockey sticks. I still have one. After the game it was mayhem in the parking lot as the kids attacked each other as they had seen the players do!

Oh my goodness.
I never bothered to listen to this song, all the way through, until now./
Holy crap, it's beautiful!

Meanwhile the announcer screams "BUDDY SCORES HIS FIRST CAREER GOAL! It TOOK THE BIG GUY 20 YEARS, 20 YEARS OF BLOOD, SWEAT AND PATIENCE BUT THE ENFORCER FROM BIG BEAVER SCORES!!!"

I was privileged to see Rocket Richards play for the Habs at the Montreal Forum way back in the 50's. He was my boyhood hero. We lived in the outskirts of Montreal Island so did not see the Richards riot but of course we heard all about it on the news. NHL ice hockey was a much cleaner sport then because the players did not have helmets and the like so they could not hit each other so aggressively. Just a bunch of thugs nowadays.

This Canada is long gone. It's all Muslims now

If I only I was born in a simpler time I swear I could of made the nhl or least Ahl

What a fantastic use of photos for one of my all-time favourite WZ songs <3

WZ is the greatest

In the USA, Warren changed the lyric to "take of your TEAM"✌

My only regret is that the gif of Eric Boulton scoring on a breakaway against Martin Brodeur didn't happen until after this video was compiled... Surely it would fit when Buddy finally saw that heavenly light.

This is beyond brilliant, like so many of Warren's songs

Those Finns...no-one EVER suspects the Finns...😆

"Git in the penalty box".

Hit somebody!

Wicked video and song Cookiedan.

"What else is a Canadian farm boy to do? (hit somebody!)"

God Bless you Warren Zevon.

Thank you for posting this!

this is pure

The rink I play out of is on Big Beaver Exit 69

long live the Maine Mariners

what a fuckin tune!

It's official. This is my favorite song by Warren Zevon.

This song hits me hard. This was my job

Dave Shultz there, awesome, met him and Bobby Clarke a few years ago at Hextalls hall of fame ceremony

Them Flyers , yeah maybe buddy should have been a bully

Co-written by Mitch Albom.

Well he became A REF...THE DON BECAME A REF

AND HE WAS PRINCE ALBERT ...IN A CAN

WELL YOU BETTER LET HIM OUT

Big beaver exit 69 lol....

This song never fails to make me teary-eyed. Its such a beautiful story sung and written by one of the most perfect singer/songwriters to do a song about Hockey. Warren Nailed it, RIP.

Doug Glatt!

Paul Shaffer plays the organ here

What a beautiful weirdo. :)

Such a moving song. It always makes me cry when Buddy scores.

So, does Buddy die at the end?
The Swede coldcocks him and he sees that Heavenly light...

shroomhilda No. He gets knocked out at the end by the Finn Goon, thus ending his career with a defeat, but in doing so getting the goal he always wanted. the Heavenly Light is the light that goes off when a goal is scored.

Buddy most certainly dies in this song but is content while doing so. He finally achieved his one goal since he was nine. In his mind he's is going out on top. Anything he did after scoring that goal would have been downhill. His life ended at its pinnacle.

It's open to interpretation, he either died or was knocked unconscious

i only got 2 rules dont touch my fuckin Percocet and does anybody have any fuckin Percocet

Honestly my favorite line in the whole movie

just possibly the worst sounding song in the history of music!

Great video. Captured the essence perfectly. :)

4:43 does he say team or teeth?

This is the most stupid song I've ever heard.

Yeah, I know. that's why it's my favorite. Hit somebody!

Love the 81 number

it's the Canadian way, if it moves, beat the shit out of it.

Happy 70th to WZ...and wherever he is, you can bet...his hair was perfect!

People don't realize satire, even when it hits them like a truck straight in the face.

Well played Mister Zevon. A true master of words.

Shark fans I know might like, love this song.

Horrible Horrible Horrible should just of stuck to Warewolves , tarnishing a great player & sport . Goons are outdated these days you morons ! GFY's

farm boy's from Canada also contributed heavy to WW1 & WW2 and helped fight Hitler..just in case anyone asked..they were also a big part of the invasion of Normandy

Good point. My Dad was a decorated WWII vet. He believed that all the leaders should be handed baseball bats and sent into a ring to duke it out.

So true! Those proud sons of Canada also warranted themselves at least one cemetery all their own over there in places like France because of their renown fighting prowess! I seem to remember being taught in school that there is a graveyard there in France that's considered Canadian soil because it's full of Canadian soldiers who died defending France and in return, France granted that little bit of land to Canada so that they could bury their citizens in Canada.

for which I am grateful,always....

what about complaining about spelling ?

And how's that working out for their descendants?

Love the goons! Thats hockey!

canadians are good on the ice, but generally not as goons :P
good song btw

Wendel Clark, Tie Domi and Matt Martin all disagree

Joe Flavor don't forget don cherry

Not to mention Marty McSorley, the prototypical goon/tough guy. OP knows nothing.

Don't forget Georges Laracque

Dave Semenko

lol. that's the 16 mile exit on the east side of metro Detroit. lol

this is about Marty McSorley

lol love marty

This is Warren, lighting up the sky like a comet.. one of a kind, rare, precious and irreplaceable. This man knew how to have fun....even in the recording studio. I'll be seeing you again, Warren...real soon. Rock the Pillars of Heaven, Excitable Boy! And save me a front row seat!

...and don't forget to bring the Lawyers, Guns, and Money!!! u kno just in case...

+Shawn McCaw Damn straight! Cuz you just never know!

o23090 totally welcome! Zevon frickin.LIVES!!!

300 fights baby!

this song makes me want to hit somebody

SO HIT SOMEBODY

Sounds like Letterman yelling "Hit somebody!"

It is. Letterman and Warren Zevon were great friends.

Was this a live performance in the Ed Sullivan Theatre?

Duncan Portal mitch albon

Does Buddy die at the end?

No. He gets hit and knocked out and therefore lost the fight but got his goal.

""Buddy's final night" could imply death. But by this point in the story Buddy has been playing hockey for twenty years, so it's more likely he was set to retire."

Or just pissed his coach and GM off and got released.

But at this particular moment, he was unguarded because he took the shot instead of focusing on the fight. So it may very well have killed him. Houdini died the same way.

E Kramer I hope they let him keep the puck

whalers forever

yahhh I love warren Zevon so mad he died

I know right , Selfish Bastard.

Still like Stompin' Tom's Hockey Tune more.

We should all see the flashing red light.

The lyrics fit Boogard like a (hockey)glove, so much I think of the name Boogie every time Warren sings 'Buddy'...

I love this song even more after learning it's David Letterman yelling " Hit Somebody".

I know this song is funny and all, but it can make you feel some type of way at the same time

Zevon in a nutshell

Classic bar song

I went to listen to this song after John Scott scored in the all star game

Michael Schettig haha

best line:
"take care of your teeth, that might work for you."

I know Doug Glatt was from the States but how they did not play this song SOMEWHERE during Goon is still beyond me

I know right?

+Mike Volpe "I am a hockey player, sir". "You're a fucking Goon".

They're making another one. Hopefully this will get used then

+Mike Volpe Kevin Smith has been developing a movie / miniseries about this song with Mitch Albom since the same time Baruchel was writing Goon. The two projects have tripped over each other for years. Smith wanted to cast SW Scott after he worked with him in CopOut and J&SBSB. But, Scott signed on with Goon. Smith's film / series will follow is literally about this song. So, Baruchel is probably steering clear of it deliberately.

+FeatherInPhilly Interesting...thanks!

In the new version, Buddy gets elected captain of an NHL All-Star Team.

+Ben And now, he's the all-star MVP. What a day.

+Andrew C That mock fight after Kaner's goal was hilarious. I still rewatch Pat Foley's call of the fight John Scott had with Westgarth from 2010.

+Ben He timed it wrong when he played for the Wild. No one could replace Boogard!

Such an amazing song...I am just finishing the Crystal Zevon tell all book which documents the days and nights of Mr. Zevon....what an amazing book, nothing held back...

At the risk of pissing some hockey folk off (I'm a a St Louis Blues fan & we share the same the color scheme as the Charlestown Chiefs😎😎😎) but I SO wish somebody would've HIT pretty boy "Great One" Gretzky😡🖕😡🖕😡🖕😡

He blessed us with his presence in the mid 90's for, oh, like FIFTEEN MINUTES & then rather build a dynasty that wound EASILY rival the one he blessed the Oilers with, he F'ing phoned it in for the Rangers ☹️😩😩🖕🖕🖕🖕😱

Feel my pain???

+John Erkman To hit Gretzky you need to get past Marty Mcsorley, not an easy task

Gretzky and Hull had no chemistry and the great one was at the end of his career and his powers were fading. Even if he played the rest of his career in St Louis he wouldn't have even come close to a cup let alone a dynasty.

+Michael Schettig BULLSHIT! I saw that triple overtime playoff game Wayne was in with Brett & Co! The amps were cranked to 11 then!

All those years In the Rangers pretty boy never cranked it past three! He wasn't past any prime but when a legend indulges in atrophy...

+John Erkman Mmm... that was the Johnstown Chiefs.

Thanks, now I'm reminded of Yzerman from the blue line again. Still think the Blues would have made a run to the SCF that year.

Any body remember the Atlanta Flames, I do.