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yes and I think the band was named after a bar.

Oops I may have said above that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones did Tessie. I think Dropkicks did it.

>>Dropkick Murphys are an Celtic-American punk rock band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996.[1] The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five albums for the label, and making a name for themselves locally through constant touring and yearly St. Patrick’s Day week shows, held in and around Boston. The band’s final Hellcat release, 2005’s The Warrior’s Code, features two charting singles, “Tessie”, which was recorded for the Boston Red Sox to be played after home game wins, and “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”, which was featured in the Academy Award-winning movie The Departed.

In 2007 the band signed with Warner Bros. Records, and have seen each of their subsequent albums, The Meanest of Times and Going Out In Style, chart in the Billboard top 20 with The Meanest of Times debuting at No. 20 while Going Out In Style made its debut at No. 6, the band’s highest ever charting album.[2][3]

In 2006, “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”, a song from The Warrior’s Code, with lyrics from a Woody Guthrie poem the band found in his archives was featured in the 2006 Academy Award winning film The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. Two videos, one with and one without footage from The Departed, were made due to overwhelming response to the song, which became one of the band’s biggest hits to date and helped introduce Dropkick Murphys to an even bigger mainstream audience thanks to the film and soundtrack. The song was also featured in The Simpsons episode “The Debarted”.[8] “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” became the walk-up song of Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon, who danced an Irish jig to the song several times throughout the 2007 Boston Red Sox Championship season. During the team’s victory parade, Papelbon did the jig while the Murphys played the song on the same float.