Comedian David Baddiel reacts to school's Three Lions re-write

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By Chris Wood, BBC South

Comedian David Baddiel reacts to school’s Three Lions re-write

Comedian David Baddiel has reacted to an Oxford school re-writing the iconic song Three Lions.

St Nicolas CE Primary School in Abingdon have been getting ready for Sunday’s Euros final between England and Spain.

Headteacher, Mr Spooner, re-wrote the lyrics to the song, originally produced and performed by Mr Baddiel, Frank Skinner and The Lightning Seeds in 1996.

While speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, Mr Spooner and his students Emily and James found out what Mr Baddiel thought of their version.

Mr Spooner’s re-write included lyrics like: “Germany hosts, it’s been three years. A win, two draws, we’re top of the group, but it starts, all the fears and critics who have been there before say the team’s such a bore.”

He recorded 60 of his year 6 pupils singing the song during an assembly and said they didn’t have much time to rehearse.

The video of their perfomance has since been upoaded to social media.

Mr Spooner told Radio Oxford host, Adam Ball: “Obviously all of the children have been very excited over the last few weeks and I’m a rather large football fan myself.

“I wanted to bring a bit of festive cheer and fun and share it with the world just to enjoy this special occasion.”

The school released a video of the year 6 pupils performing Mr Spooner’s re-written version of Three Lions

St Nicolas Primary School Still taken from the video released by the school of pupils sitting in an assembly hall facing towards a stage singing, the headteacher, Mr Spooner, is sat on the stage with a guitar next to a projector screen which has the words to the song on it, specifically the chorus 'It's coming home' — The school released a video of the year 6 pupils performing Mr Spooner’s re-written version of Three Lions

More of his re-written lyrics include: “But then we see Jude’s bicycle kick, and those penalty kicks, Ollies goal last minute, the nation’s screaming.”

Mr Spooner added: “It’s just reflecting the tournament and we talk to the children a lot about navigating hard times, but ultimately it can lead to amazing success.

“Some of the comments [on the video] have been really overwhelming and put, hopefully, a smile on people’s faces. The children can’t quite believe what’s happened.”

In a video recording from Mr Baddiel, who co-wrote the original song, he joked Mr Spooner “did not have legal permission” to change the lyrics and he’s considered “coming into the school and having him arrested”.

But he added: “Your version of it was so brilliant and so moving, you did it so well.

“I’ve decided to let him off so well done for that and let’s all hope football is coming home.”

Reacting to the clip, 11-year-old pupils James and Emily said it was “awesome” he’d heard the song.

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