The Skye boat song. The Corries

The Corries sing "skye boat song". This is the best version I've heard of this song. From their "Silver collection" album

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Music

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• Skye
• boat
• song
• the
• corries
• bonnie
• prince
• charlie
• 1745
• jacobite
• rebellion
• scotland

[TOKIOlove18]

Why is this verson not on iTunes?!?!?!?!

[Scotty1137]

@TOKIOlove18 here's the email for Ronnies son, you can ask him, gavin@corries.com

[Jinky1888]

Please my Scottish brothers , let us not allow these English to paint our history....may we always remember!!!!!

[smalltownteddy]

@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.

[3tangle3]

@SpartanPict wtf..the lowlanders were part of the old welsh kingdoms......but galloway was gaelic speaking, dont talk pish

[SpartanPict]

@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!)!

[paulkate72]

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.

[StubyStubyDoo]

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.

[britflik]

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.

[sarahedwards2]

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.

[Londubh1]

@Apemanwithcalculator Fact !

[smalltownteddy]

@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.

[MetalliferousRock]

@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?

[leopoldletrange17]

@junkman19571 You need to mind your tongue fella . . . talk like that'll get you one in your backyard.