X: 1
T: Skye Boat Song    [A]
C: music: Trad.
C: words: Sir Harold Boulton (1859-1935)
O: 1884
%D: 1884 "Songs of the North" by Boulton and MacLeod, London
S: Concord Slow Scottish Session collection (arr. Barbara McOwen)
R: air
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
K: A
P: Chorus
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"A"E3FE2 | A4A2 | "Bm7"B3cB2 | "E"e6 |\
"A"c3Bc2 | "D"F4F2 | "E7"E6- | !fine!E6 :|
w:  Speed, bon-nie boat, like~a bird on the wing, On-ward!~ the sail-ors cry;
w:  Car-ry the lad that's born to be King         O-ver the sea to Skye.
P: Verse
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"F#m"c3Ac2 | c6 | "Bm"B3FB2 | B6 |\
"F#m"A3FA2 | "D"A4A2 | "F#m"F6- | "(E7)"F6 :|
w:1.~Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, O-cean's a roy-al bed.
w:~~~Rocked in the deep, Flo-ra will keep        Watch by your wear-y head.
w:2.~Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,   Thun-der-claps rend the air;
w:  ~Baf-fled, our foes stand by the shore,      Fol-low they will not dare.
w:3.~Ma-ny's the lad fought on that day,         Well the clay-more could wield,
w:  ~When the night came, si-lent-ly lay         Dead on Cul-lo-den's field.
w:4.~Burned are their homes, ex-ile and death    Scat-ter the loy-al men;
w:  ~Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath        Char-lie will come a-gain.