Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Skye Boat Song, artist - Nana Mouskouri. Album song Super Best, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 14.11.2011
Record label: Hot Dice
Song language: English
The 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. |