The Skye boat song (Victor Wilburn)

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• (Posted 2015-11-14)  CPDL #37520: 

Editor: Victor Wilburn (submitted 2015-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 273 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: The Skye Boat Song
Composer: Victor Wilburn
Lyricist: Traditional

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: BB

Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Mixed ensemble

Published: 2008

Description: Arranged for baritone and bass, with guitars, bass, and harmonica accompaniment. Recorded version has percussion as well (not notated in the score).

External websites: https://soundcloud.com/victor-wilburn/skye-boat-song

Original text and translations

English text

R.:
Speed, bonny 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,
Thunderclouds rend the air;
Baffled, our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.
R.

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.
R.

Many's the lad fought on that day,
Well the Claymore could wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead on Culloden's field.
R.

Burned are their homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.