--- title: Watch Bill Murray and Cubs Sing for Go Cubs Go on SNL Video description: Players Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, and Dexter Fowler were joined by Bill Murray to sing a live cover of "Go Cubs Go" during Saturday's show. canonical: https://time.com/4560845/bill-murray-cubs-song-snl/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-07T17:15:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:27.567Z og:title: Watch Bill Murray and Some Cubs Sing for Joy on 'SNL' og:description: Murray joined Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, and Dexter Fowler to sing "Go Cubs Go." og:url: https://time.com/4560845/bill-murray-cubs-song-snl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bill Murray and Some Cubs Sing for Joy on 'SNL' twitter:description: Murray joined Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, and Dexter Fowler to sing "Go Cubs Go." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Bill Murray and Some Cubs Players Sing a Victory Song Together on _SNL_ > Sponsored content. 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Wearing matching blue sweaters and barbershop-quartet-style boater hats, they each introduced themselves slyly before Murray surprised the crowd with his appearance. “Right now, for me, it’s all about our music,” Murray explained to the hosts, before the foursome brought on a troupe of backup singers and launched into their jubilant rendition of the Cubs song, the [1984 classic “Go Cubs Go.”](http://time.com/4556535/go-cubs-go-song-history/?iid=sr-link1) “Hey Chicago, what do you say / The Cubs are gonna win today,” they sing. While it’s probably fair to say that none of the four would make it very far on the real version of _The Voice_, the triumphant song will bring joy to any Cubs fan. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4560845/bill-murray-cubs-song-snl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4560845/bill-murray-cubs-song-snl/"},"headline":"Watch Bill Murray and Some Cubs Players Sing a Victory Song Together on SNL","datePublished":"2016-11-07T17:15:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:27.567Z","description":"Go Cubs Go.","url":"https://time.com/4560845/bill-murray-cubs-song-snl/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4560845/bill-murray-cubs-song-snl/","name":"Watch Bill Murray and Some Cubs Players Sing a Victory Song Together on SNL"}}]}] ```