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Bookmark or Share- Outlander Theme Song Lyrics - Lyrics On DemandOutlander Main Title Theme Lyrics. The Skye Boat Song. (Originally a Scottish folk song, altered by Bear McCreary for the show) Sing me a song of a lass that is gone, Say, could that lass be I?
- The Skye Boat Song - Wikisource, the free online libraryThe Skye Boat Song has gained the reputation of a traditional Scottish song recalling the escape of the young pretender Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) after his defeat at Culloden in 1746: he escaped from Uist to the Isle of Skye in a small boat with the aid of Flora Macdonald. He was disguised as a serving maid.
- Folk songs: The Skye Boat song - Scotland MagazineIn the first part of a new series exploring the origins of Scotland’s folk songs, we look at The Skye Boat Song, a popular if rather sentimentalised air.
- Lyrics for The Skye Boat Song by Traditional - SongfactsThe Skye Boat Song. by Traditional. Album: various (1875) songfacts ®. 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. Thunderclaps rend the air. Baffled our foes stand by the shore. Follow they will not dare.
- The Skye Boat Song - WikipediaThe Skye Boat Song" (Roud 3772) is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh ("Cuckoo of the Tree"). [1] In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love, Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him.
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