And that hard won crown from the Stewarts come down to England was

freely given,

And for a bit of gold, our nation was sold in seventeen hundred and seven.

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Though the bargain was set, we can never forget that you canny sell

blood for money.

So we gave awa for nothing at a', which is sad - or Helluva funny.

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For the might of the English Empire was marked on the map in red,

The blood of the Scottish soldier for a German King's shilling dead,

But now that cost must be counted a final reckoning made,

We've had enough of that English bluff, it's time our own part we

played.

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So let's be bold let the troops be told, shout to them all out loud,

The Scottish story, truthfully told can do nothing but make us proud.

For we're all Jock Thomson's bairns and like bairns we'll bicker

and greet,

But then as in any family draw together when bad times we meet.

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For blood is thicker than water and brothers under the skin,

And brings us together to stand as one man with the bonded strength of kin.

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Of course it's an accident where you're born be it castle or mansion

or cot,

But God has been kind that out of all mankind He has let you be born

a Scot.

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So thank Him in His goodness in this land of cakes and ale,

Of cuddlin'and golf and the pibroch call and the highland hills

and the mist,

The catalogue is endless, there's never a stop to the list.

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But there is something else to consider, a thought that I could strains,

Even mair than the blood, Scotland's never hid her wealth of Scottish

brains.

Once what got up a head of steam, what work our strain inspires,

From charlie Mackintosh's coat to Johnny Dunlop's tyres.

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Linoleum, radar, penicillin, adhesive stamps breach, all products

of the Scottish mind put into every reach,

By Watson, Watt and Fleming, Chalmers and McGregor.

Names that in our story grow spilling out our vigour.

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From Mrs Keiller's marmalade to Robert Grove's first fag,

Nothing can demean our worth or our nation's flag.

We gave the world the telephone through Canada's Graham Bell,

America her navy too, Paul Jones was a Scot as well.

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