A Lincolnshire Lad - We've Always Been Here Poem by Christopher Tye

A Lincolnshire Lad - We've Always Been Here

Back in the day we roamed the land,
Hunting Rhinos and Woolly Mammoths,
Ice ages came and went we stayed,
Burial mounds we built in the bronze age,
The iron age is still with us just.

The Romans came and went we stayed,
Swain the great Viking king reigned here,
The Normans left us castles and cathedrals,
King Steven and Queen Matilda anarchy did cause,
King John came and left us the crown jewels and democracy,
Henry of Bolingbroke King of England was one of us,
Lancastrian and Lincolnshire lads brothers of the red rose,
The Lincolnshire Rising gave Henry VIII something to thing about.

The industrial revolution came and went we stayed,
We built steam engines for field and rails,
Aircraft built and flown here,
Submarines built by Marshall's of Gainsborough,
Water tanks for Mesopotamia built in Lincoln,
Farmers for all of England's food,
Lime woods, Wolds and fens we are hewn from,
We who left for King and Country our hearts remain.

By Christopher Tye