Ye pimply-faced all rife with chords Wherever grace may find you Ye bards of youth with tongues of swords Lean close that I remind you That as you're turned and passion-poised Tae voice a generation Know well your path was lit and paved By Britain's great invasion Who forced the shores American And bled the yankee soil With amplifiers pressed to ten Laid waste the passive minstrel Remember jagger's pomp and thrust And lennon's swift appraisal Proud Stewart shook the halls to dust As Strummer, Jones and Davies When Bonham fought with thunderous rage And Moon wreckless abandon Brave Townshend swept the air with Page McManus and MacGowan And for creative liberty Nae matter what the drawback United toppled peer and press A band's a band for a'that And charged with acts of mutiny And whate'er else you'd call that Stood we in rev'rent unity A band's a band for a'that While ye were boasting in the bars Or brawling on the pavement Was we adoze in wrecks of cars Tae make the next engagement.