Five Four, No More

[A poem I wrote after Dundee United won the Scottish Cup]

Five Four, No More

There was a time,
An age ago,
When DFC were king,
The trophy count,
Was five to nil,
We hadn’t won a thing.
But Wee Jum’s boys,
In ‘79
Picked up a cup at Dens!
And then next year,
Against the ‘Dee,
We won the cup again!
By ’83,
We’d won the league,
And 5-3 was the score,
In 94,
A cup once more
To make the score 5-4.
For sixteen years,
The funny team,
Had wheeled that scoreline out,
Even from the lower leagues,
“The score’s 5-4!” they’d shout.
We had to suffer all those years,
But now we’ve evened up,
Cos Houstie’s boys,
Have done the biz,
And won the Scottish Cup!