Skye Boat Song – Choir Club

This post is for choir club!

Here is one of the songs we’re singing. It has some harmonies that we won’t be doing, but I’m posting it so the kids in choir club can get the hang of the tune!




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, thunder claps rend the sky 
Baffled our foes stand by the shore, follow 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
Through the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, ocean’s a royal be
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
Many’s the lad fought on that day, well the Claymore could wield
When the night came, silently lay, dead on Culloden’s 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