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The Skye Boat Song

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The song was played by pipers as the coffin of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II travelled up the Long Walk to Windsor Castle on 19 September 2022. Media comment included speculation that this was to 'put to rest' the conflict between the Jacobite and Hannoverian houses.
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It was extremely popular in its day and, from its first recording by Tom Bryce on 29 April 1899, it became a standard among Scottish folk and dance musicians. From the 1960s onwards, it became even more widely known and has remained popular in mainstream music genres.
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artist Glen Ingram. Both versions were in the Australian hit parade in 1966. A tough garage rock version of the song by a New Guinean band, The Stalemates, was included on the Viking Records compilation
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composed the new lyrics to Ross's song which had been heard by Anne Campbell MacLeod in the 1870s, and the line "Over the Sea to Skye" is now a cornerstone of the tourism industry on the Isle of Skye.
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Lansdowne Studios (now a high-end residential underground property) with session drummer Peter Boita along with all the high-profile studio session players of the day. The cellist
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sang it in the 2015 show "Heritage" (arr. Phil Coulter) and on the CD and DVD of the same name. Celtic Thunder Limited. USA Sony Music Entertainment.
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The text of the song gives an account of how Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as a serving maid, escaped in a small boat after the defeat of his
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Among later renditions that became well known were Peter Nelson and The Castaways from New Zealand, who released a version in 1966, as did
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airs sung by a visitor, he judged the lyrics to be "unworthy", so made a new set of verses "more in harmony with the plaintive tune".
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It can also be heard as background instrumental music in several episodes of the American serial killer television series
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to avoid the increasingly thorough government searches. It is unlikely that a boat from Benbecula would sail south of
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states that he proposed to replace "Over the Sea to Skye" because it was "too strictly held by a publisher here".
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between 1974 and 1975. They were given an official release on the deluxe re-release of the album in 2009.
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recorded two versions of the song with The Atlantic Crossing Drum & Pipe Band during the sessions for
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adaptation of the tune, known as "Spirit of God Unseen as the Wind"; some of the lyrics vary.
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and The Chieftains recorded an instrumental version (which was used as background music for a
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The song was not in any older books of Scottish songs, though it is in most collections like
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covered the song as part of a song trilogy entitled "Etienne Trilogy" on her debut album
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recorded an arrangement by their artistic director Desmond Earley for their 2015 album
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recorded a version, arranged by Lee Lawson and Harold Boulton, on his 1965 debut album
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originally included the song, titled as "Over the Sea to Skye", in his arrangements of
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on the recorder, which in-universe is supposed to be the same recorder that the
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album (track 19). Galway plays the instrumental version on episode 1957 of
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sings the song on board a boat with crew members at 46 mins 17 secs.
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as he evaded capture by government soldiers after his defeat at the
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Mrs R. L. Stevenson. "Prefatory Note". In Robert Louis Stevenson.
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recorded an instrumental version of the song in 1986 on the album
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recorded the song under the title "Bonnie Boat" for their album
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played an instrumental version of the song on their 1987 album
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adapted the song as the opening titles of the 2014 TV series
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entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" before the first wedding of
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for unaccompanied four-part chorus in 1957, commissioned by
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It's sung by the character Claire Louise McLeod (played by
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Index

The Skye Boat Song
bagpipes
media help
Roud
Scottish song
William Ross
unrequited love
Charles Edward Stuart
Benbecula
Isle of Skye
Battle of Culloden
Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jacobite
waltz
Paul Robeson
Tom Jones
Rod Stewart
Roger Whittaker
Tori Amos
A map of the Small Isles, showing their location in the Hebrides.
Small Isles
Hebrides
Jacobite rising of 1745
Flora MacDonald
Outer Hebrides
Rum
Skye
Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet
Laura Alexandrine Smith

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