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Skye Boat Song [F]

Found in Skye_Boat_Song.abc from the John Chambers abc collection

X: 1
T: Skye Boat Song    [F]
C: music: Trad.
C: words: Sir Harold Boulton (1859-1935)
O: 1884
%D: 1884 "Songs of the North" by Boulton and MacLeod, London
S: Concord Slow Scottish Session collection (arr. Barbara McOwen)
R: air
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
K: F
P: Chorus
|:\
"F"C3DC2 | F4F2 | "Gm"G3AG2 | "C"c6 | "F"A3GA2 | "Bb"D4D2 | "F"C6 | "(C7)"z6 :|
w:  Speed, bon-nie boat, like~a bird on the wing, On-ward!~ the sail-ors cry;
w:  Car-ry the lad that's born to be King         O-ver the sea to Skye.
P: Verse
|:\
"Dm"A3FA2 | A6 | "Gm"G3DG2 | G6 | "Dm"F3DF2 | "Bb"F4F2 | "Dm"D6 | "(C7)"z6 :|
w: 1.~Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, O-cean's a roy-al bed.
w:~~~~Rocked in the deep, Flo-ra will keep        Watch by your wear-y head.
w: 2.~Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,   Thun-der-claps rend the air;
w:   ~Baf-fled, our foes stand by the shore,      Fol-low they will not dare.
w: 3.~Ma-ny's the lad fought on that day,         Well the clay-more could wield,
w:   ~When the night came, si-lent-ly lay         Dead on Cul-lo-den's field.
w: 4.~Burned are their homes, ex-ile and death    Scat-ter the loy-al men;
w:   ~Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath        Char-lie will come a-gain.

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