Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Skye Boat Song , by - Nana Mouskouri. Song from the album Quand Tu Chantes, in the genre ПопRelease date: 15.04.1976
Record label: Mercury
Song language: English
Skye Boat Song |
| 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, |
| Thunder clouds rend the air; |
| Baffled our foe’s stand on the shore |
| Follow they will not dare |
| 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 |
| Many’s the lad fought on that day |
| Well the claymore could wield |
| When the night came, silently lay |
| Dead on Culloden’s field |
| Burned are our homes, exile and death |
| Scatter the loyal men |
| Yet, e’er the sword cool in the sheath, |
| Charlie will come again. |
| shores when Flora MacDonald took him, disguised as a serving maid, |
| from Uist to Skye in a small boat. |
| Flora is buried at Kilmuir on the north coast of Skye. |
| Prince Charlie |
| near Rome where he was born. |
| Words by Sir Harold Boulton, Bart., 1884. Music by Annie |
| MacLeod. |