Skye Boat Song (chrom)

W: Sir Harold Boulton
Scottish sea chantey
Key: Em
Time: 6/8

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Speed bon-nie boat like a bird on the wing
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On-ward the sail-ors cry.
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Car-ry the lad who was born to be king
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O-ver the sea to Skye
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Loud the winds howl
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loud the waves roar
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Thun-der-claps rend the air
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Baf-fled our foes
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stand by the shore
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Fol-low they will not dare

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

Many’s the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore did wield
When the night came
silently lain
Dead on Colloden field

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

Though the waves heave
soft will ye sleep
Ocean’s a royal bed
Rocked in the deep
Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head

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