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Skye Boat Song

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

(Chorus)

Though the waves leap, soft shall you sleep,
Oceans a royal bed,
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep,
Watch by your weary head.

(Chorus)

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

(Chorus)

Burned are our homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men.
Yet ’ere the sword cools in the sheath,
Charlie will come again.

(Chorus)