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Skye Boat Song      Traditional Scottish Song

Transcribed by K Woodgate

Easy melody Version


Chorus:
6/8 C      Am      G        C       F     C
G7
e|--------------------------|-----0------3---|-0---------0-------------|-----
B|--------------1-----1---1-|-3------3-------|------3------------------|-----
G|-0----2---0---------------|----------------|---------------2------2--|-0---
D|--------------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----
A|--------------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----
E|--------------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----
 Speed bon-nie boat, like a bird on the wing. ...

  C      Am      G        C       F      C
e|--------------------------|-----0------3---|-0---------0-------------|-----
B|--------------1-----1---1-|-3------3-------|------3------------------|-----
G|-0----2---0---------------|----------------|---------------2------2--|-0---
D|--------------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----
A|--------------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----
E|--------------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----
  Car-ry the lad that is born to ...

Verse:
  Am          Dm          Am
e|-0--------0-----0--|---------------------|-------------------------|-------
B|------1------------|--3--------3-----3---|-1----------1-----1---1--|-------
G|-------------------|-------2-------------|--------2----------------|-2-----
D|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|-------
A|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|-------
E|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|-------
1 Loud the winds howl, Loud the waves roar, ...
2 Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, ...
3 Many's the lad  fought on that day,  ...
4 Burned are our homes, exile and death  ...

  Am          Dm          Am            G7
e|-0--------0-----0--|---------------------|-------------------------|------|
B|------1------------|--3--------3-----3---|-1----------1-----1---1--|------|
G|-------------------|-------2-------------|--------2----------------|-2--0-|
D|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|------|
A|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|------|
E|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|------|
1 Baf - fled our foes stand on the shore, ...
2 Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep   ...
3 When the night came, silently lay Dead  ...
4 Yet, e'er the sword cool in the sheath, ...