LYRICS:

In 776 BC Olympics were begun
Greece was the only country, so naturally we won.
Cheats built bronzes of God Zeus, were we honest winners?
The answer's no, we had more statues than you’ve had hot dinners.

Our games meant truce was called in war, a peace every 4 years
But wrestling was so violent that bouts could end in tears.
No girls allowed to watch or run, that might sound rude,
But makes sense when I tell you we competed nude.

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Flame!
It’s gonna burn forever
Love for Olympic heroes
Flame!
We’d like one next, however
Sadly it’s Emperor Nero.

I went from Rome to Greece so I could play them at their games
In 67 AD you know I won Olympic fame.
Told them to include a contest based on poetry,
Not much good for sportsmen, no, but brilliant for me!

Crashed my racing chariot but still awarded gold
Hey, my Olympics, my rules, to argue would be bold.
I won every medal that was up for grabs
The crowd loved it, well they had to or I would have had them stabbed, OK?

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Flame!
Olympic champion that’s me
My Games were Emperors own brand

Flame!

Think I was bad? In 393
Christian Rome had them banned.

It’s over, it’s over, it’s over, it’s over, it’s over, it’s over

Shame!

- Wait! Not so fast!

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I’m Baron de Coubertin, a famous French historian
I read of the Olympic Games thought I should try restoring them.
They’d be just like the old days, I said but did propose,
That unlike Greeks, Victorians should do them wearing clothes.

In 1896, re-launched the games in dear old Greece
Hoped it would make men more morale as well as less obese.
Rebuilt a stadium so we could start to play
Games of the modern Olympics which we still have today.

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Flame!

I’m owed my personal glory
But no-one remembers my name

Flame!

So here to finish our story
A man who has gold-plated fame.

 

I’m Jesse Owens, fastest man in 1936
I took home 4 gold medals, yeah, but that’s just the basics.
What you should know about the fact I was victorious
Is it made Herr Hitler mad, ha, it made him Fuhrer-ious.

Hitler said Berlin should be the Games' Germanic base
So he could show the world Aryans were the master race.
I won in four events, he had to back pedal
His evil theory destroyed with every medal.

 

Flame!
It’s gonna burn forever
Olympics are never in doubt
Flame!
A fire of sporting endeavour.
(You realise it’s actually gone out?)
Olympic, Olympic, Flame!