Boulton said he used a Gaelic song format, a rowing song called an iorram, and the tune is said to come from the Gaelic song Cuachan nan Craobh or The Cuckoo in the Grove.

Here are some new words, written three weeks ago with a class of 10 year olds in Borestone Primary School, 200 yards from the Bannockburn Robert The Bruce statue, and 800 yards from the tower of St Ninian's Church, all that was left of the building in 1746 after the Highland Host's gunpowder was blown up.

The Drummer Boy's Song
Tune Skye Boat Song, but as fast 6/8 march

Here I stand at Drummossie Moor
My drumsticks in my hands.
All around me in their plaids
The fearsome Highland clans
Ratata, ratata,
I'm ready to beat the charge
But ratata, the order won't come
To use the claymore and targe

CHORUS
Bonnie Prince Charlie, born to be king
Came over the sea from France

Ah'll tell ye what happened at Stirling Brig,
The townspeople chopped it down.
We had to leave our cannon and ball
Behind at Stirling Town.
A boom and a bash, a bang and a crash,
People went up in ther air.
Our powder blew up in St Ninian's Church,
Clanspeople landed sair.

Kenneth the Seer looked forward in time,
And he saw a battle here.
Heads were lopped off, quarter was none,
Falilies were left in tears.
Ratata, ratata,
The order has come to charge.
But now we must run away from the guns,
And leave the claymore and targe.