The Skye Boat Song - Scottish song of the Jacobite Rising
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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Also long overdue, but I've been busy with life and stuff. I used this version of the song because it is the best version in my opinion, also I do not believe the gun sound effects used are accurate, but they get the job done.
EDIT: Also the date is wrong, it should say either 1746 or 1870's/90's
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Original Song:
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Lyrics:
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.
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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 lay
Dead on Culloden's field.
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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 leap, soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean's a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.
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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.
Burned are their homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.
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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.
Over the sea to Skye.
Written by Harold Boulton, an English baronet.
There were Jacobites in England too
Not too many in Harold Boulton's lifetime.@@gaudd
NO WAY. Mad respect to England then
Fun fact. Flora's husband organized the Loyal Highland Regiment in North Carolina, fighting against the revolutionaries. My 4 g grandfather was their chaplain.
Traitors
@@capt.crunch1 Loyalists against Liberal trash.
I forgot I jokingly called this dudes ancestors traitors 😂
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That's awesome Im related to Mathew Campbell 4th of Skipness
This is still sang as a lullaby in Cape Breton where many Highlanders came after the Clearances
This was played on pipes at my granny’s funeral this past May. It’s strange that I know the melody but never actually paid attention to the lyrics. She’d probably admonish me for that…
Great to hear the neglected verses which tell the fuller story. Lovely rendition.
We were taught this song at School. We were Catholics and taught Bonnie Prince Charlie was the Rightful King. The Jacobites were fighting for the real King. These brave men managed to get Bonnie Prince Charlie to Safety in France..
They also want independence
the war was 1745-46 jacobite rising of charles edward stuart. Previous to this 1721, 1719, 1715, 1682 Glencoe. Multiple attempts to put the stuarts on the throne but not to happen till William ascends the throne.
Religious sectarianism
We learned this song at school in Ireland in the 60s and there was another verse that went Mull on the stern , rum on the port, igg on the starboard bow , glory of youth glowed in his soul , where is that glory now.
It is indeed a beautiful song
Truly beautiful song.
omg this brings back so many memories of when I was a small child & my Dad sang me to sleep every night singing this song 😁 I no every word of it by hart ❤ I’d give the world to be able to sing it with him just 1 last time 😭 RIP Dad 👴🏻 love ❤️ ya so much & give a big 😘 to Mam for me plz 😘 I really did have the best Mam & Dad in the world 🌎 xx
When I was a child my mother sang this to me regularly.
Thanks for uploading, I would have sung, (that's what I called it, others may differ) this a hundred times at school and never thought about the lyrics, in my defence it's hard to think with a bloke with a cane patrolling! I really enjoyed finding out what the song was really about and seeing the lyrics again, thanks again.
Never saw this as an anti English song growing up in London in the 70s but then again we did have a #Celtic (Welsh) headmaster.
If you like the song, I recommend listening to Ella Robert's version as well!
It's hard to find many Scottish and Irish songs sang by men, and they were very much written to be performed by male bards. Something is lost when these songs of rebellion are sang in a soft, saccharine voice. Also, the echo in Ella Robert's version drives me nuts.
@@BlackBanditXX that's true, I imagine a lot of these war-related songs were meant to be sung by soldiers
nah this is way better
Будь благословенна Шотландія. Хай Бог тебе береже, а я збережу тебе в своїй душі
Oh dear, I hadn't heard this version before. (I had heard of it, just not seen the lyrics.) Anyways, been working on a historical fiction involving a time traveling American who has found himself in 1794 Botany Bay. Outlander was one of those shows whose themes he loves ... He plays a guitar and is asked to play something for the Lt Governor.
They use this in Outlander
More fascinating to look at jacobite rebellion history
Having watched/watching Outlander and knowing they use this song in the Opening, this original version adds so much more color to the story and Jaime's position as a Jacobite.
Though Outlander's portrayal of Bonnie Prince Charlie is sadly, thoroughly lacking
I’m American with Scottish ancestry. I have red hair and have always been rebellious. I now know why. I stand for what I believe come what may.
Beautiful love from Cork Ireland 🇮🇪
Bonnie prince Charlie
Alister McDonald
I am Viking , I Am Scottish and IAM GRATEFUL , no one owns me but The trinity , the IRA and UDA dont own me in God I trust through Jesus Christ my Lord Savior and redeemer. I am no ones slave not even Englands. In Jesus Christs Name Amen.
Reminds me of the opening of the outlander tv show
It's literally the same
tandem triumphans ... aaaaw
waved the tandem flag too early, ..then clans bickering before the battle even happened. troops promised not arriving...calamity. companies are now trying to build on the uk's most devastating battlefield, the last big battle on uk soil, can you imagine real estate deciding ghettysburg would be great for apartment blocks ? or another countrys big battlefield. granted langside was built on but a park was made to salvage where most fell.
Don't forget that the Jacobites represented only a proportion of the peoples of the British Isles. Many, many people did not want to be ruled by a (weak) Catholic king.
Yet he came to the Isles to fight for his birthright.
Up the Stuarts!
matur suksma😊
Alba Gu Bráth ❤
Haben sie sich da nicht im Datum geirrt?
Yes, it appears that I was wrong. The song is about the battle of Culloden (1746) and the song seems to have been made in 1870's-1890's. So the date 1782 is wrong in all respects, thanks for getting me to check the date again! I'll add this to the description.
Celtic thunders George donlason sung it better
jacobite shite, the man watched the battle from a distance and done a runner before it ended, Just as his grandfather done at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Not the actions of a hero!
You've posted the same rant twice so I'll assume you were English and somewhat worried that "jacobite shite" clings to you like the truth you deny.
@@Alwayswilling You assume wrong, i am Scots, British and proud to suport the union. Many Scots fought at Culoden for the Goverment forces. And could you please explain the truth i deny.