[Verse 1] Mary was six days old When James V fell down France took her young hands And dressed her in a crown At sixteen, she wed the Dauphin Catherine held the door At seventeen, queen of France At eighteen, widow once more [Pre-Chorus] France and England still were bleeding Steel on the Channel wind Then she went back to Scotland To wear the throne again [Chorus] Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots A crown in a storm A name they could not lock Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots (her claim rang out) A rival they could not stop [Verse 2] She was Catholic in a country Turning hard and new Then came a husband’s murder And the nobles turned on her too She fled across the border In fifteen sixty-eight And England caught her shadow Behind an iron gate [Pre-Chorus] Elizabeth saw the danger A cousin with a cause France behind her breathing And Rome inside her words [Chorus] Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots A crown in a storm A name they could not lock Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots (her claim rang out) A rival they could not stop [Bridge] Cecil saw the ember And fed the fearful flame “Remould the isles together” Was the shape beneath the game Warnicke heard the woman Trapped inside the throne Wormald saw a Europe Not a bedroom, not a stone [Final Chorus] Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots A crown in a storm A name they could not lock Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots (her claim rang out) A rival they could not stop
