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Album: Miscellaneous (1996)
Artists: Celtic Folk

  1. A Mans A Man For All That
  2. Air Fol Lol Lol Lo
  3. Athen Rye
  4. Auld Lang Syne
  5. Banks Of Newfoundland
  6. Black Velvet Band
  7. Blowing In The Wind
  8. Come Awa Hame Laddy
  9. Country Roads
  10. Dont Call Me Early In The Morning
  11. Eriskay Love Lilt
  12. Fiach Mchugh
  13. Heading For Halifax
  14. Heavy Water Plant Song
  15. Lewis Bridal Song
  16. Loch Lomond
  17. Mary Hamilton
  18. Mary Mack
  19. Mist Covered Mountains
  20. Nancy Whiskey
  21. Scarborough Fair
  22. Seven Old Ladies
  23. Skye Boat Song
  24. Summer Road
  25. The Island
  26. The Nightingale
  27. Uist Tramping Song
  28. Westering Home


Celtic Folk
Miscellaneous
Skye Boat Song
The Skye Boat Song 14


Chorus:
D A D
Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing,
G D
Onward, the sailors cry.
A D
Carry the lad that's born to be king
G D
over the sea to Skye.


D Em
Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
G Em
Thunderclaps rend the air,
D Em
Baffled our foes stand by the shore,
G Em A
Follow they will not dare.

Cho.

D Em
Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep,
G Em
Ocean's a royal bed.
D Em
Rock'd in the deep Flora will keep
G Em A
Watch o'er your weary head.

Cho.


D Em
Burnt are our homes, exile and death,
G Em
Scattered the loyal man.
D Em
Yet ere the sword, cool in the sheath,
G Em A
Charlie will come again.

Cho.


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This song commemorates the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from these
shores when Flora MacDonald took him, disguised as a serving maid,
from Uist to Skye in a small boat. Flora later emigrated to the Carolinas in the US, but is now buried at Kilmuir on the north
coast of Skye.
Prince Charlie is buried near Rome where he was born. The tune has its origins in a Gaelic sea shanty.
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