The Warrior’s Code released

The Warrior’s Code , the band’s fifth and final album for Hellcat, was released on June 21, 2005, and made its debut at number 49 on the album charts, which at the time was the highest debut for a Dropkick Murphys album. The album features the singles “Sunshine Highway” and “The Warrior’s Code” as well as the bonus track “Tessie”. The album also featured a re-recorded version of ” I’m Shipping Up to Boston “, a song originally recorded for the band’s “Fields of Athenry” single. The song featured lyrics from a Woody Guthrie poem the band found in his archives. The song was featured in the 2006 Academy Award -winning film The Departed .. Two videos, one with and one without footage from The Departed, were made due to overwhelming response to the song, which became at the time the band’s first and biggest charting single (at the time) reaching number 1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 . The song helped introduce Dropkick Murphys to an even bigger mainstream audience thanks to the film and soundtrack. The song also became the walk-up song of Boston Red Sox player Jonathan Papelbon , who danced an Irish jig to the song several times throughout the 2007 Boston Red Sox World Series Championship season. During the team’s victory parade, Papelbon did the jig while the band played the song on the same float. In 2012 the band said that since Papelbon signed with the Philadelphia Phillies, he could no longer use the song, as it was a “Boston song”. They hoped the new Red Sox closer Andrew Bailey would use it, but both Bailey and his replacement, Koji Uehara had different songs. Washington Nationals ‘ second baseman Daniel Murphy also used it as a walk-up song.