[INTRO — JUKEBOX / OLD RADIO VOICE] Click. Hold up, hold up— You skipped three songs. You don't know who Dey is. You don't know who Dat is. You don't know whose Who is. CROWD: THEN PLAY IT! Ha! Needle drop. BRASS EXPLODES [HOOK] LEAD: WHO DEY? CROWD: WHO DAT! LEAD: WHO WHO? CROWD: WHOSE THAT?! Who Dey, Who Dat, whose Who— Before you knew who they Dey! WHO DEY! WHO DAT! Pigs in the sky, better look up, Jack! WHO DEY! WHO DAT! Hell got cold and the pig came back! If you said “when pigs fly!” Baby, check that sky— CROWD: THEY FLYIN'! Then maybe Cincinnati finally getting that— CROWD: SUPER BOWL! [VERSE 1 — CINCINNATI] Queen City, come outside! Put some nasty in that Nati stride. Avondale— WHERE YOU AT? Kennedy Heights— WHERE YOU AT? Lincoln Heights, make some noise, Bricks outside with the girls and boys. Paddock? Say it! Bond Hill? Say it! West End, Walnut Hills—claim it! Price Hill, Winton Terrace, Over-the-Rhine, don't act embarrassed. I know I missed somebody— CROWD: YOU MISSED ME! Then yell your block! CROWD: THAT'S MY CITY! From the river to the hills, everybody get ridiculous. If your neighborhood ain't in the song, shout so loud we gotta put it on! [PRE-CHORUS — BENGALS STADIUM CHANT] Burrow got the ball— WHO DEY! Ja'Marr downfield— WHO DEY! Hendrickson coming— WHO DEY! Orange and black— ALL DAY! Now I ain't predicting nothing— CROWD: YES YOU ARE! No, I'm saying if pigs can fly— CROWD: THERE THEY ARE! [HOOK] WHO DEY? WHO DAT! WHO WHO? WHOSE THAT?! Who Dey, Who Dat, whose Who— before you knew who they Dey! Ball in the air, pig in the sky, somebody tell me why that swine can fly! Hell froze over? CROWD: TURN THE HEAT UP! Bengals win the Bowl? CROWD: DON'T JINX US! [VERSE 2 — THE BALL / PIG / LEGION] Wait. Why we talking pigs anyway? They called that football a pigskin. Cincinnati's got football-making history. Now take that phrase— “When pigs fly.” Take that other one— “When hell freezes over.” Now open that old Book. There was a man with too many voices. “What is your name?” LOW CROWD: Legion. Again. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? CROWD: LEGION! Too many mouths for one answer, too many voices inside one chamber. Spirits sent out— pigs ran down— Water below— MUSIC STOPS ...now imagine they went up. BRASS HIT PIGS FLY! Maybe that's why they hate me— my big mouth! Wait— DISTORTED CROWD: MOUTHS. ...Oh. [NEW ORLEANS SWITCH — SECOND LINE] TUBA + SNARE + TRUMPET WHO DAT SAY DEY GON' BEAT THEM SAINTS?! New Orleans walk in like: CROWD: NOT US! Bayou steaming, pot stay hot, gumbo rolling, jambalaya in the pot. Gold, green, purple in the avenue, feathers reaching where the moonlight move. Second line stepping— one, two, slide! Brass start talking and the dead feel alive. Masks and beads, drums in the street, whole city got a heartbeat under its feet. Enchanting little city, she'll pull you close— Don't know if that's the trumpet or something older. [CINCINNATI vs NEW ORLEANS — CALL & RESPONSE] CINCINNATI: WHO DEY! NEW ORLEANS: WHO DAT! CINCINNATI: WE GOT JOE! NEW ORLEANS: WE GOT SAINTS! Hold up— Saints? You mean saints saints? Choir, help me out! CHOIR: Ohhhhhhh! Now the Saints marching in, Bengals marching out, one got halos, one got stripes— somebody tell me what this game about! Cincinnati got the funk! New Orleans got the brass! Put that bass against that second line— CROWD: LET 'EM CLASH!** [DANCE BREAK] WHO DEY LEFT! WHO DAT RIGHT! PIG FLY HIGH! HELL FREEZE TONIGHT! Two steps back! Let the brass walk through! WHO IS WHO?! CROWD: WE DON'T KNOW! WHOSE WHO?! CROWD: KEEP THAT GOING! Before you knew who they Dey— EVERYBODY: WHO DEY! [BRIDGE — MYTHOLOGY SLIPS THROUGH] Funny little song, ain't it? Football. Pigs. Saints. Legion. Cities answering each other. Words meaning two things then three things then something you weren't supposed to notice. Maybe we're all a little Legion. One body. Hundred voices. Whole city screaming the same name. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? CINCINNATI: WHO DEY! WHAT IS YOUR NAME? NEW ORLEANS: WHO DAT! No, no... I asked— WHO ARE YOU? Silence. JUKEBOX: Next selection. [FINAL CHORUS — HUGE] WHO DEY! WHO DAT! WHO WHO! WHOSE THAT! PIGS FLY! HELL FREEZE! SAINTS MARCH! BENGALS, PLEASE! 😂 WHO DEY! WHO DAT! BRASS BLOW! BRING THAT FUNK BACK! Before you knew Who— before you knew Dat— before you knew whose Who— YOU ALREADY KNEW DEY! Jukebox click. VOICE: “Selection complete.”
