Whats the use of wearing braces
vests and pants and boots with laces
spats or hats you buy in places
down on brompton road

Whats the use of shirts of cotton
studs that always get forgotten
these affairs are simply rotten
better far is woad

Woad's the stuff to show them
woad to scare your foemen
boil it to, a brill-iant hue
and rub it on your back and your ab-do-men

Ancient briton never hit on
anything as good as woad to fit on
neck or knees or where you sit on
tailors you be blowed

Romans came across the channel
all dressed up in tin and flannel
half a pint of woad per man'll
dress us more than these

Saxons you can waste your stitches
building beds for bugs in britches
we have woad to clothe us which is
not a nest for fleas

Romans keep your armor
saxons your pyjama
hairy coats were meant for goats
gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llama

Tramp up snowdon with your woad on
never mind if we get rained or snowed on
never want a button sewed on
go it ancient B's
Ancient Britons