2nd May VIII Song 2018
Rowing Story
To the tune of Taylor Swift's Love Story
We were all young when we last saw it I close my eyes and the flashback starts They’re sitting there in a boat in Div 1 Hear the crowd, the bank party, the cannon Hear the cox, God he’s so damn demanding And they row Little did they know
That they would go down, and we’re now in Div 2 And now Jacqui said, 'Stay away from Div 3' So we’re sitting in the boathouse Wondering how to row And Seb said,
Row me on, take us back into Div 1 I'll be coaching, all that's left to do is row Just get those blades in and grit your teeth through the rest It's a May Bumps Race, prove that we’re the best.
So we sneak out to get buckets for our crew We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if Jacqui knew She has eyes, we saw her frown for a little while.
If you want to row over, you’re gonna need to row better And a bucket rig’s not gonna help you get there Just squeeze down the legs, I’m begging you, please, just row And we all said
Seb save me, Ed’s trying to tell us how to eat One-thousand calories, two-hundred grams of meat We can’t eat this much, we need time to digest The food we’re eating, and Ed, please, take a rest.
Row me on, take us back into Div 1 I'll be coaching, all that's left to do is row Just get those blades in and grit your teeth through the rest It's a May Bumps Race, prove that we’re the best.
Row
Seb got tired of waiting Wondering if we would ever stop being shit His faith in us was fading Especially when our stern kept getting hit And Seb said
Row me on, save us, keep us in Div 2, I keep whistling for you but you never bump” But then came Clare 2, they couldn’t get us And then on Day 4, we couldn’t reach Jesus.
You rowed me on, fine, we’re not yet in Div 1 Yes, we went lower than any FaT M2 have gone. We got our blades in but didn’t make it through the rest It's a May Bumps Race, I think we failed the test.
Row, row It still won’t be long before we’re up out of Div 2.
