Skye Boat Song

Canadian folksinger Jesse Ferguson performs "Skye Boat Song", words by Sir Harold Boulton. Chords and lyrics below.

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The Skye Boat Song
(words Sir Harold Boulton [1884], arrang. J. Ferguson, Jan. 2014)

3/4,

Chorus:
F Dm C
Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing;
F Bb F C
“Onward,” the sailors cry.
F Dm C
Carry the lad that's born to be king
F Bb F
over the sea to Skye.

V1.
Dm Gm
Loud the winds howl; loud the waves roar.
Dm Bb Dm
Thunder claps rend the air.
Dm Gm
Baffled our foes stand on the shore;
Dm Bb Gm C
follow they will not dare.

Chorus:

V2.
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.

Chorus:

V3.
Many's the lad fought on that day
well the claymore could wield
when the night came, silently lay
dead on Culloden's field.

Chorus:

V4.
Burned are our homes; exile and death
scatter the loyal men.
Yet, e'er the sword cools in the sheath,
Charlie will rise again.

Chorus: