Skye Boat Song
Public domain - full karaoke IMMHA-L001
Credit: Traditional air (Gaelic rowing song); words Sir Harold Boulton · 1884
Origin: Late-19th-c. Scottish song on a Gaelic air; first published in Songs of the North, 1884.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye_Boat_Song
Original scan on X: https://x.com/IMMHACAL/status/1940929875835011282
Chords as printed on the original song sheet. Key of G, 3/4 time (as written on the sheet).
[Chorus] G Em Am D7 Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing G C G Onward the sailors cry Em Am D7 Carry the lad that's born to be king G C G Over the sea to Skye Em Am Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar Em B7 Em Thunder clouds rend the air G Am Baffled our foes stand on the shore Em B7 Em D7 Follow they will not dare (chorus) Em Am Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep Em B7 Em Ocean's a royal bed G Am Rocked by the deep, Flora will keep Em B7 Em D7 Watch by your weary head (chorus) Em Am Many's the lad fought on that day Em B7 Em Well the claymore could wield G Am When the night came, silently lay Em B7 Em D7 Dead on Culloden's field (chorus) Em Am Burned are our homes, exile and death Em B7 Em Scatter the loyal men G Am Yet e'er the sword cool in the sheath Em B7 Em D7 Charlie will come again (chorus)