ARTIST Sandi Thom has rewritten her hit single I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker to be a World Cup anthem.
Thom teased the reimagined track with a social media video where she says "we had an idea, a really silly idea" while shots of her and tribal band Clann An Drumma (Gaelic for "Children of the Drum") play the tune walking down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
The collaborated single – Proud To Be From Scotland – is set to be released on June 12, two days before Scotland play their first match against Haiti in Boston.
The release also comes as Thom celebrates 20 years of the original hit, which topped the singles charts of Australia, Ireland, and the UK.
Thom gives viewers the first few lines of the song, sang to the tune of I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker:
Oh, I'm proud to be from Scotland
After all these years we rise
We've been waiting for our moment
Now it's written in the skies
Oh, I'm proud to be from Scotland
Where Bravehearts still believe
We're marching to the World Cup
With the nation on our sleeves
We did something kinda silly but also kinda amazing... and it's coming out on 12th June LETS GO SCOTLAND @clannandrumma 🏴 LINK HERE: https://t.co/xnDCiPcm9R PRESAVE NOW 🏴 pic.twitter.com/48Tcnjv4ei
— SANDI THOM (@Sandi_Thom) June 5, 2026
Thom joins several artists released songs in honour of the competition, including one from Belle and Sebastian.
The Scottish pop group released the track – titled It Only Takes One Lion – this week with the hope it may be used to represent the nation in the eagerly-awaited football competition.
Thom wrote the original song after her mobile phone and other belongings were robbed one evening.
In a 2011 interview, she reflected: "I wondered if that had happened to me back in the days of the hippies what would I have done and would I have freaked out so much?".
