The Lions' Roar 4 Track Version by CJ Cowie

This is a wee tune to celebrate English shinty thrown together this afternoon on my tascam portastudio on the occasion of our international this weekend against Alba. I'm Scottish but have lived in england about 15 years and play for London Camanachd. As a result cheerleading for England still sticks in my throat and some of that probably comes through in the song.

I'd welcome any cover versions or reworkings.
Lyrics are:

Em G
Oh cousin how you’ve held the past
Am Em
Through years when we have slept
G Am
And now we wake and search for the lost
C D
Memories that you’ve kept
C (b) Am
The history of the game who’s spirit
Em C
courses in our veins
G D
Diminished here and tempered by
Am
deluded courtly grace.

G C
But now again we take the mighty
G
Caman in our hands
G
And waken from our absent daze,
C D
Stand proud again upon this land.
C
We take our place without the shame
G Am
Of a past that we abhor
C
And sweep away all past disdain
Em
When we hear the Lions’ roar!

It’s England that we play for now
The south of this island’s span
But not for Queens or Dukes, nor Empires
But for our fellow man
The brothers either side of us
are family forged anew
To play the game of shinty
Is now what we long to do.

But now again we take the mighty
Caman in our hands
And waken from our absent daze,
Stand proud again upon this land.
We take our place without the shame
Of a past that we abhor
And sweep away all past disdain
When we hear the Lions’ roar!