Talk:The Skye Boat Song

message: i love this song! can wikipedia add the music on like wordplayer or something? it is awesome!!!!68.43.216.88 15:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: I have fixed the formatting regarding the lyrics which were dropped in by a newbie at some point. The lyrics are obviously in the public domain, dating back to at least 1888 (I honestly thought the song was centuries older!). 23skidoo (talk) 03:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics

message: I have changed the word thunderclouds to thunderclaps in the lyrics.  Googling I discover that both are familiar, but thunderclaps is more common, and it makes more sense - how can a cloud rend the air?  I suspect the version with clouds is a misremembered form, especially since thunderclap is not a word everyone is familiar with.  But if anyone thinks it deserves a note, please add a comment at the bottom.  --Doric Loon (talk) 10:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: clouds/claps

message: The introduction to this article seems to be discussing two different songs.  It says:
"The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can also be played as a waltz, recalling the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Uist to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
"Come O'er the Stream Charlie" is a Scottish song whose theme is the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Written well after the events it commemorates, it is not a genuine Jacobite song, as is the case with many others now considered in the "classic canon of Jacobite songs," most of which were songs "composed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were passed off as contemporary products of the Jacobite risings."
What do these two songs have to do with each other?  If they are two names for the same song, then why does each of them have its own individual description in the Introduction section?  and why does Come O'er the Stream Charlie have a separate article as well?
If they are two different songs, why are both of them mentioned in this article? — Lawrence King (talk) 04:25, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody replied, I have removed the block of text describing "Come O'er the Stream Charlie".  My suspicion is that it got pasted here by accident. — Lawrence King (talk) 15:46, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two articles mixed together? 

message: At school in the 1970s, we used to sing a hymn to this melody. The lyrics are below, but I do not have the original source:
Chorus:
Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
gentle as is the dove;
teach us the truth and help us believe,
show us the Saviour’s love.
Verse 1.
You spoke to men long, long ago,
gave us the written Word;
we read it still, needing its truth,
through it God’s voice is heard.
Verse 2.
Without Your help we fail our Lord,
we cannot live His way;
we need Your power, we need Your strength,
following Christ each day.
Leegee23 (talk) 10:54, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Hymn

message: Not thrilled that recent edits have given quite so much space in the article to a TV series which only came out this year and may or may not turn out to have lasting importance. --Doric Loon (talk) 15:15, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outlanders 

message: This is one of my favorite lullabies ever.  Even though I never watch Outlander but my favorite version of Skye Boat Song is Kevin Roth. He sang this so beautifully. This is the best version to go to sleep by. Janlanuzo (talk) 21:31, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lullaby