Blacktown City Brass Band  The Skye Boat Song (14)
Channel: John Svoboda
Date: 06/11/2014

'Sky Boat Song' - beautifully played by the Blacktown City Brass Band - enjoy it until your heart is delighted!

Lyrics:

Original lyrics
 
The Skye Boat Song lyrics

[Chorus:] Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward! the sailors cry;
Carry the lad that's born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclouds rend the air;
Baffled, our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.

[Chorus]

Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean's a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.

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Many's the lad fought on that day,
Well the Claymore could wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead on Culloden's field.

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Burned are their homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.