The Bard #2 was always about Robert Burns and the swagger of Ayr. When the Scottish Football Supporters Association approached Finn Moray about an official World Cup song for 2026, the answer was already written — it just needed a new arrangement.
This special edition takes the original Bard #2 and reimagines it for the biggest stage in world football. Scotland's return to the World Cup, hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico, deserved a song that carried the same confidence Burns brought to everything he touched.
The SFSA partnership is a natural fit. Like Finn Moray, the SFSA exists to serve Scottish football supporters — not to profit from them. The collaboration means 50% of net profits from this single go directly to good causes, continuing the Social Compact that underpins everything Finn Moray does.
It is Burns with a football scarf. It is Ayr with a World Cup ticket. It is Scotland, doing what Scotland does — turning up with more heart than anyone expects.
— Finn Moray
Chorus
We're all Rabbie's bairns,
to a man and to a moose
We're all waxing lyrical,
wha haein' to the Bruce
We're all proud and Scottish,
kilted wi' a swagger
And we all kinda like
he was a boozer and a lover
Verse 1
He was born doon the village,
worked hard on the land
Wrote poems in Scots
with a rough, steady hand
From farms to the page,
he rose through the crowd
Turned simple folk stories
into something proud
Chorus
We're all Rabbie's bairns,
to a man and to a moose
We're all waxing lyrical,
wha haein' to the Bruce
We're all proud and Scottish,
kilted wi' a swagger
And we all kinda like
he was a boozer and a lover
Verse 2
He gave us Tam o' Shanter,
a tale in the night
Of witches and drinking
and galloping fright
It made people laugh,
it gave people chills
And it's still being read
in the glens and the hills
Chorus
We're all Rabbie's bairns,
to a man and to a moose
We're all waxing lyrical,
wha haein' to the Bruce
We're all proud and Scottish,
kilted wi' a swagger
And we all kinda like
he was a boozer and a lover
Verse 3
His flaws and genius
spun the spells he'd release.
Wrote songs about freedom,
about love and peace
He died far too young,
but his words still stay
We remember the Bard
on each Burns Night Day
Final Chorus
We're all Rabbie's bairns,
to a man and to a moose
We're all waxing lyrical,
wha haein' to the Bruce
We're all proud and Scottish,
kilted wi' a swagger
And we all kinda like
he was a boozer and a lover
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