Some pointless comments on this page over what? Can't we just enjoy the music without nationalistic remarks which enflame. The events which spawned this beautiful music are long past history now. It does no good to keep it going surely.
The strange thing with some (not all) the Zealot Natrionalists who comment on vids like this, is that they truely have their history in a twist! Their facts gleaned from romantic songs and heroic sagas of down-trodden Scots all mixed up with a few slogans. Charlie didn't actually muster much support out side of the highlands in infact he wasn't wanted in the lowlands or the north east where the vast majority of people lived. A sad would be king who believed in his Holy God given Right to rule.
My father used to sing this to me along with other Gaelic folk music while my mum got me into Elgar. Both legitimate cultural heritages as good as one another.
I wish you would shut up bashing the English and vice versa. I'm half Scotch and half English and I do hope the union holds strong since at one point together we were the most powerful country in the world and remain stronger together. We are also far more alike than one likes to think.
When I first learned this song (when the choir sang it) I thought it was "over the sea to sky" as in the sky outside! I didn't know it was about the island until I was 15.
soon we'll be rid of all the jocks in england...hooray..and you can have that family of scot/germano/greco chavs back........we need another flodden....
@junkman19571 il meet you at flodden if you want you fuckin ignorant english twat and introduce you to a claymore if you want. We fight and die under the same flag and some of my closest friends have. so away and be anti-islamic or are you to scared, they are the ones who are invading our countries.
I still remember my school choir singing this when I was in fourth grade We had a night of music during our 2000 spring open house, and I was in the recorder club. I remember standing in the gym doors and hearing the choir sing this song. The verses were solo parts, and during the chorus, the whole choir sang.
@catpainblackudder01 how can you be proud of a made up label? being english is too live a total lie......the english were handful of elite anglo-norman land owners....most of us peasants had far older cultures and genetics......just look at bonfire night and halloween...older indo european/celtic heritage...not norman french lol
Bonnie prince charlie fled even though 4000 highlanders had regrouped....they were hunted down and killed or dispersed to four winds with no leadership
I´m from Germany....and when i hear the corries i can hear, smell, see and taste scotland...to all scots - you can be proud....great music, great country, great whisky...best ever...
@8xtremedramaqueen8 no. It's Skye Boat Song. Named after a lady from clan McDonald (forgot her name) but Bonnie Prince Charlie on a small boat and he escaped to Skye and hid after his defeat at culloden. Never to return to his men waiting for him.
@Lordwatson303 "I wouldn't be too proud of that." Why? If you're going to be descended from a clan then you may as well be descended from the biggest. most poweful and most succesful. That is why some of the other clans, especially the MacDonalds dilsiked them. Because they were all trying to get the upper hand and the Campbells were just better at it than virtually all the others!
Truly beautiful song ! however if it did not exist, because there had been no rising by the clans and thereby, there had been no anhiliation of Highland culture as a result, then I would be happy to accept the loss of never having heard this beautiful song.
I am 17years old and i still can't fall asleep unless this is sung to me by my mother, this piece of music really means alot to me as i spent the first 6 years of my childhood growing up on the Isle of Skye.
My mum used to sing this to me to get me to sleep. Even as I got older, I always associated it with the calm reassurance of being loved, warm and safe. Intensely nostalgic.
The Piranha Plant's Lullaby from Super Mario 64 sounds like it could be backing chords to this song. Listen to it and you'll see what I mean! It's quite creepy actually how well it works out.
When I listened to my school choir sing this song at the spring open house when I was in grade 4 (several of my friends were in it) I thought the lyrics were "over the sea to sky" as in the sky outside. Even now, 11 years later, this song sticks with me. It is etched in my heart.
I'm not scottish but I love the lyrics. It has meaning and sounds beautiful. To the scottish it would mean there is a story behind it. A very beautiful song.
@Jl200 I don't think this could be the anthem either. Nice song but I can't imagine very many people would want a song relating to a civil war as an anthem! Wouldn't go for Cathedral either. Nice tune but mundane lyrics. Even with new lyrics I think if we did have an official anthem it would need to at least be Scottish and Cathedral isn't.
I love this song!!!! I cannot get it out of my head, but it is sooo beautiful!!!!! Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing, onward the sailors cry, carry the lad thats born to be king, over the sea to skye!
The Piranha Plant's Lullaby from Super Mario 64 sounds like it could be backup chords to this song. Search "piranha plants lullaby" and you'll see. It's REALLY creepy how well it works out.
@seonidh Cymru/ Wales is still being so servile....I moved to west wales and they are so cowed to openly speak welsh and yet you get council estates filling up with brummies chav types (not attacking brummies just chavs lol)
@3tangle3 so sad considering the brythons owned most of the island of britain. Wales is a wonderful place the last thing it needs are people there who dont care about the culture.
@seonidh english mass media, youth depopulation and much immigration from england since the 1950s is finally breaking the back of the culture as a community culture
@Jinky1888 What garbage. Scottish lowlanders have more in common culturally and scoially with their Cumbrian/Northumbrian/Yorkshire counterparts that with the highlanders. There is next to no difference between the people who are 'English' and those who are 'Scottish'. Your country is being flooded with people who are not even the same race, let alone culture, and you are moaning about English people?!
Get your priorities right (and don't look to musicians for political wisdom!)!
The Piranha Plant's lullaby from Super Mario 64 sounds like it could be backing chords to this song. Listen to the two and you'll see what I mean! It's quite creepy actually how well it works out.
This song is fantastic, would go well with a slide show i have put together for my Rea family history:) I'm having problems trying to purchase song, any suggestions?
@sarahedwards2 No. It wouldn't. Pay attention to the lyrics. Read Scottish history. This is a song about taking Bonnie Prince Charlie away from a bloody battlefield where his loyal followers lay slaughtered. Want to sing your bairns to sleep with this? Good grief. Use something else as a 'lullaby', please. This song is a HUGE part of Scot's history.
Words and music - Sir Harold Boulton, 1884 (continued)....
@ElizabethGS It's hardly an insult to use this song as a lullaby. Hell, "Rock a bye baby" is talking about babies falling out of trees. I could sing this song word for word by the time I was five, and my daughter falls asleep to me singing it now too. It's an important part of history, and my mum taught me the story behind the words too.
@MetalliferousRock I seem to be having some difficulty with linking a page. The story will differ depending on who you ask, as the Battle of Culloden was caused by a rebellion and a great rift of opinion on who ought to be king. Unfortunately, history is written by the winner, so we don't have as much insight into what really happened as we ought.
@ElizabethGS My Da used to sing me Flower of Scotland as a lullaby, and Nanna used to sing me the Skye Boat Song and Scots Wha Hae. Teaching history from the cradle using songs like these makes certain that the stories, the places, the names will never truly die.
I'm proud to have learned about Culloden, Bannockburn, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace (although not all the gory details), before I learned to read, thanks to Nanna and Da.
Part 2) 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 clouds rend the air; Baffled our foe's stand on the shore Follow they will not dare 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
As an Irishman I always considered the Corries as excellent and this song is great,I also am very partial to that other great classic, `Flower of Scotland`.
Wunderschön. Hört sich zunächst etwas fremd für unsere (deutsche) Ohren an. Sehr geheimnisvoll und mystisch. Aber das ist ja wohl das Besondere an der Volksmusik Schottlands. Nochmals, ich bin sehr beeindruckt.
never understood the romance of "bonny prince charlie" myself. A bloodbath followed him everywhere and he was weak and ineffectual. Far too many men dead due to him and his pretence.. mind you, history is full of those who died fighting for nothing..
The Corries interpretation is beautiful. I love the way they sing this as a sad song yet they keep the tempo moving as if being in a boat being blown along by the wind.
I feel the rising and dipping of the boat on the waves and I am there on that narrow channel that separates Skye from the island that we know as Scotland.
While other singers will come and go The Corries will sail on for ever.
I left Scotland when I was 14 yet I vow I'll return one day and never leave. I guess everyone thinks their home is beautiful, however in my case its true :)
@tintosangre I don't have any time for that gimp either. But I have plenty of respect for those who fought for him. They were gents whose only crime was to put faith in the wrong man.
@velapulsar I, as well, always think about those who are sleeping under that sod versus Prince Charlie. Those very brave men who fought or were captured and died. I think of my many great grandfather who died on that field and who's son turned 15 on the boat over to America.
I learned this song as a child in school,(in USA- FL) and it has stayed in my mind and heart all my life- am now 49 and it brings tears to my eyes- still. Although I did learn a different version with the words-This original version is wonderful-
It has been so many years since I last visited Scotland. I might only be a 24 year old german dude, but the connection I feel to the Highlands feels like an ancient covenant! The Corries captured this emotion perfectly.
@supermat123 Hi there, I'm from Scotland, and my parents own a cottage in the north west of scotland. It's five minutes north of a town called ullapool. look up island view cottage in google. the cottage is on a pebble beach and has absolutly beautiful views of the ocean and the mountains. plus the sunsets are fantastic. just thought you'd like to look at, maybe it'll persuade you to come back to the country you so obviously love! :)
my papa and i used to go a walk when i was young and i always remember sitting on top of the hill looking out across the village and my papa used to sing this song to me xx
Scotland is a beautiful country and well worth visiting. My recommendations are to avoid the Central/southwest but almost anywhere else is fantastic. The pictures are of further north, mostly the west coast. The song is a poor version of a well known song-a romantic piece about an italian 'prince' raised in France who escaped the English by heading for Skye. He was the alledged 'king of Scotland'. Aye right.
@superstratboy Don't get me wrong, love Scotland. Love the North West, Plockton with it's palm trees, Thurso,read a book at midnight, in midsummer. The best beach in Britain at Dunnet Head. It's what happening to change the way the English see Scotland now.
Really? That's more or less impossible surely? Great-great-great uncles would have been only alive in the mid 1800s, or perhaps early 1800s - certainly not the 1740s.
Beautiful lyrics, I've loved this song for as long as I can remember. But the guitar kind of wins me over. This is my new favorite version, thanks for posting!
Some pointless comments on this page over what? Can't we just enjoy the music without nationalistic remarks which enflame. The events which spawned this beautiful music are long past history now. It does no good to keep it going surely.
paulkate72 2 weeks ago in playlist The Somme-More of my Songs
The strange thing with some (not all) the Zealot Natrionalists who comment on vids like this, is that they truely have their history in a twist! Their facts gleaned from romantic songs and heroic sagas of down-trodden Scots all mixed up with a few slogans. Charlie didn't actually muster much support out side of the highlands in infact he wasn't wanted in the lowlands or the north east where the vast majority of people lived. A sad would be king who believed in his Holy God given Right to rule.
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My father used to sing this to me along with other Gaelic folk music while my mum got me into Elgar. Both legitimate cultural heritages as good as one another.
I wish you would shut up bashing the English and vice versa. I'm half Scotch and half English and I do hope the union holds strong since at one point together we were the most powerful country in the world and remain stronger together. We are also far more alike than one likes to think.
britflik 3 weeks ago
When I first learned this song (when the choir sang it) I thought it was "over the sea to sky" as in the sky outside! I didn't know it was about the island until I was 15.
sarahedwards2 3 weeks ago
soon we'll be rid of all the jocks in england...hooray..and you can have that family of scot/germano/greco chavs back........we need another flodden....
junkman19571 2 months ago
@junkman19571 il meet you at flodden if you want you fuckin ignorant english twat and introduce you to a claymore if you want. We fight and die under the same flag and some of my closest friends have. so away and be anti-islamic or are you to scared, they are the ones who are invading our countries.
Leonidis78 1 month ago
@junkman19571 You need to mind your tongue fella . . . talk like that'll get you one in your backyard.
leopoldletrange17 1 month ago
I love Scotland
FlemishPatriot1 2 months ago
Beautiful version.
Greenockianx 3 months ago
I still remember my school choir singing this when I was in fourth grade We had a night of music during our 2000 spring open house, and I was in the recorder club. I remember standing in the gym doors and hearing the choir sing this song. The verses were solo parts, and during the chorus, the whole choir sang.
sarahedwards2 3 months ago
My grandfather was scotish he went to a war can't member which but i was told this song was the last words he said before he passed in the battle :(
crazehcakes 3 months ago
My father used to sing this to me to fall asleep.
CrazyLazySnazzyJazzy 3 months ago
my Gran would sing this to me as a bairn
she was a Scot and proud..
but I'm English and proud..
still brings back fond memories
love you Gran...gone but not forgotten
catpainblackudder01 3 months ago
@catpainblackudder01 how can you be proud of a made up label? being english is too live a total lie......the english were handful of elite anglo-norman land owners....most of us peasants had far older cultures and genetics......just look at bonfire night and halloween...older indo european/celtic heritage...not norman french lol
Apemanwithcalculator 3 months ago
@Apemanwithcalculator Fact !
Londubh1 4 weeks ago
Bonnie prince charlie fled even though 4000 highlanders had regrouped....they were hunted down and killed or dispersed to four winds with no leadership
3tangle3 4 months ago
lovely version of this song
ChrisDoylefly 4 months ago
At school our choir sang a beautiful arrangement of this song, by our music master Lt. Col. S. Rhodes, former Director of Music of the Scots Guards.
intercomsec 4 months ago
20 people didn't board the ship to Skye
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I´m from Germany....and when i hear the corries i can hear, smell, see and taste scotland...to all scots - you can be proud....great music, great country, great whisky...best ever...
guggylein666 5 months ago 2
this song's real title is The Skye Song. the version i sang for solo ensemble was the same tune, but i think it was a very different arrangement.
8xtremedramaqueen8 5 months ago
@8xtremedramaqueen8 you mean The Skye BOAT Song. :/
Cal093 4 months ago
@8xtremedramaqueen8 no. It's Skye Boat Song. Named after a lady from clan McDonald (forgot her name) but Bonnie Prince Charlie on a small boat and he escaped to Skye and hid after his defeat at culloden. Never to return to his men waiting for him.
DrinkToIreland 4 months ago
@DrinkToIreland Flora MacDonald. My ancestor.
CountryBuff08 4 months ago
@CountryBuff08 ah nice mate :) i am from clan campbell
DrinkToIreland 4 months ago
@DrinkToIreland I wouldn't be too proud of that.
Lordwatson303 4 months ago
@Lordwatson303 thanks mate..... thanks for your opinion
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@Lordwatson303 "I wouldn't be too proud of that." Why? If you're going to be descended from a clan then you may as well be descended from the biggest. most poweful and most succesful. That is why some of the other clans, especially the MacDonalds dilsiked them. Because they were all trying to get the upper hand and the Campbells were just better at it than virtually all the others!
gaconnochie 4 months ago
@CountryBuff08: really? I'm clan MacKinnon
Whatsyourvectorvicto 3 months ago
Beautiful version of this song!
stlgtrace 5 months ago
i love this song thanks for showing us mrs m.
nasuada382777 5 months ago
Truly beautiful song ! however if it did not exist, because there had been no rising by the clans and thereby, there had been no anhiliation of Highland culture as a result, then I would be happy to accept the loss of never having heard this beautiful song.
AnAutumnsDay 5 months ago 2
love this song
Beatles6111 5 months ago
I am 17years old and i still can't fall asleep unless this is sung to me by my mother, this piece of music really means alot to me as i spent the first 6 years of my childhood growing up on the Isle of Skye.
19superbrad 6 months ago 2
My mum used to sing this to me to get me to sleep. Even as I got older, I always associated it with the calm reassurance of being loved, warm and safe. Intensely nostalgic.
LibraryOfTears 6 months ago 2
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The Piranha Plant's Lullaby from Super Mario 64 sounds like it could be backing chords to this song. Listen to it and you'll see what I mean! It's quite creepy actually how well it works out.
sarahedwards2 6 months ago
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sarahedwards2 6 months ago
When I listened to my school choir sing this song at the spring open house when I was in grade 4 (several of my friends were in it) I thought the lyrics were "over the sea to sky" as in the sky outside. Even now, 11 years later, this song sticks with me. It is etched in my heart.
sarahedwards2 6 months ago
I can almost feel the soft rock of a boat on the waves as I hear this song. Very well done ^^.
scottydawg1234567 6 months ago
Shit I just accidentally put a thumbs down on this song!!
Hokowhitu76 6 months ago
like this if you are scottish and proud to be :)
babygirl112ish 7 months ago 2
I'm not scottish but I love the lyrics. It has meaning and sounds beautiful. To the scottish it would mean there is a story behind it. A very beautiful song.
thr33wisemonks 7 months ago
To the SNP ~ Should this be the new National Anthem?
kcleong07 7 months ago 2
@kcleong07 No I personally prefer Highland Cathedral if we are not to keep Flower o Scotland.
Jl200 7 months ago
@Jl200 I don't think this could be the anthem either. Nice song but I can't imagine very many people would want a song relating to a civil war as an anthem! Wouldn't go for Cathedral either. Nice tune but mundane lyrics. Even with new lyrics I think if we did have an official anthem it would need to at least be Scottish and Cathedral isn't.
gaconnochie 7 months ago
Jestem zachwycona :)Piękny song ,fantastyczny film:)
O9ALa 8 months ago
Why is this verson not on iTunes?!?!?!?!
TOKIOlove18 8 months ago 5
@TOKIOlove18 here's the email for Ronnies son, you can ask him, gavin@corries.com
Scotty1137 8 months ago 4
@Scotty1137 Awesome!! Thanks! :)
TOKIOlove18 8 months ago
I love this song!!!! I cannot get it out of my head, but it is sooo beautiful!!!!! Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing, onward the sailors cry, carry the lad thats born to be king, over the sea to skye!
RandomCommercialsInc 8 months ago
The Piranha Plant's Lullaby from Super Mario 64 sounds like it could be backup chords to this song. Search "piranha plants lullaby" and you'll see. It's REALLY creepy how well it works out.
sarahedwards2 9 months ago
When will Scotland listen to London no more?? 300 years + and counting
3tangle3 9 months ago
@3tangle3 it took ireland 700 years and counting
seonidh 8 months ago
@seonidh Cymru/ Wales is still being so servile....I moved to west wales and they are so cowed to openly speak welsh and yet you get council estates filling up with brummies chav types (not attacking brummies just chavs lol)
3tangle3 8 months ago
@3tangle3 so sad considering the brythons owned most of the island of britain. Wales is a wonderful place the last thing it needs are people there who dont care about the culture.
seonidh 8 months ago
@seonidh english mass media, youth depopulation and much immigration from england since the 1950s is finally breaking the back of the culture as a community culture
3tangle3 8 months ago
this song is so beutiful i cried once
crazehcakes 9 months ago
kk
bringbackjericho 9 months ago
Please my Scottish brothers , let us not allow these English to paint our history....may we always remember!!!!!
Jinky1888 9 months ago 23
@Jinky1888 What garbage. Scottish lowlanders have more in common culturally and scoially with their Cumbrian/Northumbrian/Yorkshire counterparts that with the highlanders. There is next to no difference between the people who are 'English' and those who are 'Scottish'. Your country is being flooded with people who are not even the same race, let alone culture, and you are moaning about English people?!
Get your priorities right (and don't look to musicians for political wisdom!)!
SpartanPict 1 week ago
@SpartanPict wtf..the lowlanders were part of the old welsh kingdoms......but galloway was gaelic speaking, dont talk pish
3tangle3 1 week ago
When I was little I used to sing 'Larry the Lamb was born to be king' I really thought they were the words - it also dates me!
yumyummoany 10 months ago
@yumyummoany when I was in grade 4 I thought it was "over the sea to sky" as in the sky outside!
sarahedwards2 10 months ago
Scots Wa' he!
SonofCastille 10 months ago 2
The Piranha Plant's lullaby from Super Mario 64 sounds like it could be backing chords to this song. Listen to the two and you'll see what I mean! It's quite creepy actually how well it works out.
sarahedwards2 10 months ago
This song is fantastic, would go well with a slide show i have put together for my Rea family history:) I'm having problems trying to purchase song, any suggestions?
davidcrae 10 months ago
im scottish, irish, and british.....damn i love my heritage
NarutoRocker31 10 months ago
I'm not from Scotland,but my soul is.This rendition of 'Skye Boat Song',is lovely.
whitespace64 10 months ago 4
My school choir sang this when I was in the 4th grade. This would make a great lullaby.
sarahedwards2 10 months ago
@sarahedwards2 No. It wouldn't. Pay attention to the lyrics. Read Scottish history. This is a song about taking Bonnie Prince Charlie away from a bloody battlefield where his loyal followers lay slaughtered. Want to sing your bairns to sleep with this? Good grief. Use something else as a 'lullaby', please. This song is a HUGE part of Scot's history.
Words and music - Sir Harold Boulton, 1884 (continued)....
ElizabethGS 9 months ago
@ElizabethGS It's hardly an insult to use this song as a lullaby. Hell, "Rock a bye baby" is talking about babies falling out of trees. I could sing this song word for word by the time I was five, and my daughter falls asleep to me singing it now too. It's an important part of history, and my mum taught me the story behind the words too.
smalltownteddy 7 months ago 13
@smalltownteddy is there a place on the web where it neatly wraps up this little story in a quick and easy way for others and myself to understand?
MetalliferousRock 1 month ago
@MetalliferousRock I seem to be having some difficulty with linking a page. The story will differ depending on who you ask, as the Battle of Culloden was caused by a rebellion and a great rift of opinion on who ought to be king. Unfortunately, history is written by the winner, so we don't have as much insight into what really happened as we ought.
smalltownteddy 4 weeks ago
@ElizabethGS My Da used to sing me Flower of Scotland as a lullaby, and Nanna used to sing me the Skye Boat Song and Scots Wha Hae. Teaching history from the cradle using songs like these makes certain that the stories, the places, the names will never truly die.
I'm proud to have learned about Culloden, Bannockburn, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace (although not all the gory details), before I learned to read, thanks to Nanna and Da.
EmiIyMax 2 months ago
ElizabethGS 9 months ago
Part 3)words and music Sir Harold Boulton, 1884
Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore could wield
When the night came, silently lay
Dead on Culloden's field
Burned are our homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men
Yet, e'er the sword cool in the sheath,
Charlie will come again.
ElizabethGS 9 months ago
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mrmagicroundcircle 10 months ago
@mrmagicroundcircle Irish???
stjulienlepauvre 10 months ago
meh im a hybrid english / scot XD
i lvoe this + betles
warspite1995 10 months ago 2
I am not from Scotland but I sang this song in school in Singapore 50 years ago...mine, that a long time lol..
sitinorjinah 11 months ago
@sitinorjinah
If you are that old why are you saying 'lol'
naomiskin95 11 months ago
@naomiskin95 Why do you think a person after 60 cannot use lol ?
sitinorjinah 10 months ago
@sitinorjinah
Its pretty hard to imagine..
naomiskin95 10 months ago
@naomiskin95 O, are there rules?
AbsentWithoutLeaving 3 months ago
my music is telling us to sing this for our consert 2day beutiful. i also know why scotland made this song
crazehcakes 11 months ago
my music is telling us to sing this for our consert 2day beutiful
crazehcakes 11 months ago
àlainn
madhammy09 11 months ago
I was surprised when I found out this song was Jacobite.
DerBlitzStag 11 months ago
We sang this in my elementary school choir, it was always my favorite.
pozestillusion 11 months ago
@pozestillusion hey weird i did mine last night with this song 2 i go to blackwell where do u go?
crazehcakes 11 months ago
@crazehcakes I sang it when I was at Stafford Primary.
pozestillusion 11 months ago
Lisa Chappell singing this song in the Tv Show Mcleod´s Daughtes as Claire.
Season 1. Episode 5
TheKatifee 11 months ago
19 people are English ;-)
1scot4scotland 11 months ago 2
lmfaoo i scared some of my bestfriends with this song. lol like Justin Bieber &katelyn :P
BieberBeadles3032 11 months ago
We have to sing this in chorus. Now I can't get it out of my head! I know the lyircs by heart now! Lol!
Hawkpath101 11 months ago
My Dad used to sing this to me every night to sleep... And my Grama used to sing it to him...
melissam480 11 months ago
goose bumps
bigginge11 1 year ago
Best version I ever heard!
Make a great song perfect!
Berlitz20 1 year ago
singing this for chorus!!!
nata2go 1 year ago
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Oh, I almost forgot to mention another favourite-`Glencoe Massacre`
HammertheHeretics 1 year ago
As an Irishman I always considered the Corries as excellent and this song is great,I also am very partial to that other great classic, `Flower of Scotland`.
HammertheHeretics 1 year ago 43
@HammertheHeretics
As a fellow Irishman I have to agree with you, especially as regards the Flower of Scotland and the Glencoe Massacre. Brilliant performers/
x246a 10 months ago 4
I love this song. It's a perfect lullaby. I'm so going to sing this to my kids someday.
thescotishawesome 1 year ago
My chorus class is isnging this and ive taught my bird to sing this
MrTobiuchiha2 1 year ago
Beautiful
moosey62 1 year ago
thunderclaps rend the air....
thewestwoods 1 year ago
we're playing this in my schools brass band
lDavid10 1 year ago
this aint skye
ronjob99 1 year ago
i want to live her er
zacefronandwiggles 1 year ago
thumbs up if youre from scotland
ThePinhole1 1 year ago 161
@ThePinhole1 does scottish decent count? i'm a quarter scottish
DrinkToIreland 6 months ago
@DrinkToIreland Aye, you're okay then. I'm a quarter Irish!
ruthrjensen 6 months ago
@ruthrjensen me too! quarter irish quarter scottish :D
DrinkToIreland 6 months ago
@DrinkToIreland I'm a Scot ( well three quarters plus the Irish bit ) living in Denmark - but you never lose your Scottish soul.
ruthrjensen 6 months ago
@ruthrjensen i agree i'm only 25% scottish but 100% scottish patriotic. I feel like scotland is my real home
DrinkToIreland 6 months ago
@ThePinhole1 Alba Gu Brath mate :)
DrinkToIreland 4 months ago
George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder does an awesome version of this song.
HarkinMusicFan2 1 year ago
I love,love,love this version!
georginelouise 1 year ago
I love,love,love this version!
georginelouise 1 year ago
Very good, perfect as a lullaby too, thank you very much =)
PINKLUNAMOON 1 year ago
were singing this is in my choir!
Rappin73 1 year ago
I really do think that this is the best version that I've heard among many.
kendoka0girl 1 year ago
A favorite of mine, I've heard many versions of The Skye Boat Song. This is the most warming and enjoyable vocal I've heard yet...
rocketmustarddog 1 year ago
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just go to skye the best time to go is early march or late october you wont want to leave the skye boatman
alexmckendrick1 1 year ago
just go to skye the best time to go is early march or late october you wont want to leave
alexmckendrick1 1 year ago
@alexmckendrick1 yeah you wont leave due to our weather battering the island lol
stiv1985 1 year ago
I first heard this song when we sang it in music class in elementary school. I've loved it ever since. So beautiful, especially this version.
scabbarae 1 year ago
Wunderschön. Hört sich zunächst etwas fremd für unsere (deutsche) Ohren an. Sehr geheimnisvoll und mystisch. Aber das ist ja wohl das Besondere an der Volksmusik Schottlands. Nochmals, ich bin sehr beeindruckt.
geistrup 1 year ago
never understood the romance of "bonny prince charlie" myself. A bloodbath followed him everywhere and he was weak and ineffectual. Far too many men dead due to him and his pretence.. mind you, history is full of those who died fighting for nothing..
goblinonacloud 1 year ago
The Corries interpretation is beautiful. I love the way they sing this as a sad song yet they keep the tempo moving as if being in a boat being blown along by the wind.
I feel the rising and dipping of the boat on the waves and I am there on that narrow channel that separates Skye from the island that we know as Scotland.
While other singers will come and go The Corries will sail on for ever.
napsuta 1 year ago 3
I left Scotland when I was 14 yet I vow I'll return one day and never leave. I guess everyone thinks their home is beautiful, however in my case its true :)
upbeatcrab 1 year ago 2
@upbeatcrab ...........look forward to welcoming you HOME
jim5636 1 year ago
Beautiful! We sing this one in our Scottish singing group: the Caledonia Chorale.
Claidheamdanns 1 year ago
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TheGd1314 1 year ago
So many beautiful songs written about such an abject man.... See Wikipedia for more on this "traditional" song and the Pretender himself.
tintosangre 1 year ago
@tintosangre I don't have any time for that gimp either. But I have plenty of respect for those who fought for him. They were gents whose only crime was to put faith in the wrong man.
When I hear this song, I think of them, not him.
velapulsar 1 year ago
@velapulsar I, as well, always think about those who are sleeping under that sod versus Prince Charlie. Those very brave men who fought or were captured and died. I think of my many great grandfather who died on that field and who's son turned 15 on the boat over to America.
LadyAryun 1 year ago
I remember playing this in the orchestra when i was in the 6th grade. it is beautiful !
happycat2010 1 year ago
I learned this song as a child in school,(in USA- FL) and it has stayed in my mind and heart all my life- am now 49 and it brings tears to my eyes- still. Although I did learn a different version with the words-This original version is wonderful-
Jaquableu 1 year ago 2
This song reminds me of Shire.
conscarcdr 1 year ago
mostly soo beautiful n heatbreaking too... but beautiful most of all.. jus love des o'connor singing it
felixa41 1 year ago
My favorite song - my favorite place - love this rendition and the pictures here are wonderful !
Lhildebrand0604 1 year ago
Such a beautiful song. My dad used to sing the first part of this to me before I went to sleep when I was little.
Natters999 1 year ago
@Natters999 BEautiful song which was sung to me too - and by me to by two boys
Fijilass 1 year ago
It has been so many years since I last visited Scotland. I might only be a 24 year old german dude, but the connection I feel to the Highlands feels like an ancient covenant! The Corries captured this emotion perfectly.
supermat123 1 year ago 2
@supermat123 Hi there, I'm from Scotland, and my parents own a cottage in the north west of scotland. It's five minutes north of a town called ullapool. look up island view cottage in google. the cottage is on a pebble beach and has absolutly beautiful views of the ocean and the mountains. plus the sunsets are fantastic. just thought you'd like to look at, maybe it'll persuade you to come back to the country you so obviously love! :)
winday191 1 year ago
crackin tune....
MsMazza43 1 year ago
a true beatiful song.
TheRockinjock 1 year ago
have not heard such vocal harmony since Simon and Garfunkel. just discovered you and hoping to more music treasures from the British Isles.
51wil 1 year ago
nice song ^^
alkaabi551 1 year ago
my papa and i used to go a walk when i was young and i always remember sitting on top of the hill looking out across the village and my papa used to sing this song to me xx
johnnykirst 1 year ago
this song always brings a tear to my eye
Metalhead12828 1 year ago
baffled our foes, stand on the shore, follow? they will not dare!
ALBA GU BRATH
bachinlennon67 1 year ago
Scotland is a beautiful country and well worth visiting. My recommendations are to avoid the Central/southwest but almost anywhere else is fantastic. The pictures are of further north, mostly the west coast. The song is a poor version of a well known song-a romantic piece about an italian 'prince' raised in France who escaped the English by heading for Skye. He was the alledged 'king of Scotland'. Aye right.
Theagchm 1 year ago
I remember learning that song when I was a 10 years old lad at Corstorphine School in Edinburgh, back in 1969.
redzebratest 1 year ago
Brilliant song!
RichXbox360 1 year ago
my middle name is Skye ^^ i love this song so much
xSoldierAaronx 1 year ago
My family are highlanders, my mother speaks the gaelic, I am proud of being from Scotland.. xxxxxxxxxx
PaulMellorDotKom 1 year ago
its a canny song but it somehow feels wrong for a 22 year old punkrocker to be listning too at 11pm on a friday night
chunk123123 1 year ago 2
Immer schauen, nicht schlafen!
salamanda5000 1 year ago
My great-great-great uncle fought at the battle of Culloden's Moor!
WildstarOfShadowclan 1 year ago
@WildstarOfShadowclan Shame he lost ha.
llangol 1 year ago
@llangol go back to school
superstratboy 1 year ago
@superstratboy Will not change history, me going back to school.
llangol 1 year ago
@llangol No but you will learn more if you pay attention to your History teacher!
superstratboy 1 year ago
@superstratboy Don't get me wrong, love Scotland. Love the North West, Plockton with it's palm trees, Thurso,read a book at midnight, in midsummer. The best beach in Britain at Dunnet Head. It's what happening to change the way the English see Scotland now.
llangol 1 year ago
@WildstarOfShadowclan
Really? That's more or less impossible surely? Great-great-great uncles would have been only alive in the mid 1800s, or perhaps early 1800s - certainly not the 1740s.
NorthLimitation 1 year ago
@NorthLimitation lmao !!!! was thinking the same mate ;-)
skyepup999 1 year ago
i found this song out from the book wolf island in the daemonata series. its way different than how i thought i was going to be.
iamdeathmarine 1 year ago
i played this on the Cello...its sounds AMAZING!
love this song so much! :)
TheFlyableGiraffe 1 year ago
Saor Alba
peacefrog1916 1 year ago
the scot s never betrayed charles stewart even with the biggest bounty on his head ever, we seen bonnie prince charlie on the boat & home to france
jaldorian 1 year ago
This is my favorite scottish folk song :)
little1gili 1 year ago
Love this. Such a nice version.
wistaria2010 1 year ago
Beautiful lyrics, I've loved this song for as long as I can remember. But the guitar kind of wins me over. This is my new favorite version, thanks for posting!
authorlily 1 year ago
Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing! Onward! The Sailors cry!
Scotland Forever...
TheScottishRocker 1 year ago 44
@TheScottishRocker who the hell said they didnae like this?
MrJojo1690 1 year ago
Haggis is brilliant.
the fact of it being cooked in a sheep stomach puts people off, but you don't actually eat that part of it
strawberryalarmcl0ck 1 year ago 5