Making History (The Bannockburn Live! Song)

I always wanted to be Robert the Bruce

Bonnie Scotland I would save

I lined the garden shed with loft insulation

And built myself a cave

Then I got myself a spider

From a pet shop in Mothereell

Tied it to a string, watched it swing

Till it began to smell

Mum knitted me some chain mail

From some very lovely Shetland wool

I sprayed it Volvo grey and then one Friday

I wore it to the school

I got a kicking in the playground

They tore my chainmail to bits

I swore vengeance on they English

Even though I lived in Coatbridge

 Oh Bannockburn

Or maybe it was Flodden

Or it could have been Culloden

It's all the same to me

Stirling bridge or Prestonpans

I'm just a simple fighting man

Plastic broadsword in my hands

I'm making history

In our re-enactment society

We re-enact an awful lot

We did the Battle of Jutland

On Queen's Park Pond with some model yachts

for Bannockburn I said I'd be Robert

But it was all stitched up before

I played the front end of Edward the Second's horse

Which wisnae what I signed up for

All rights reserved. By Scar Quilse, 2014