Any Outlander fans on? LIP

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Here's the Skye Boat Song for you on bagpipes:


www.bagpipemaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Skye-Boat-Song.mp3

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Lyrics:

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1892 poem, which has been sung to the tune, has the following text:

[Chorus:]
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Mull was astern, Rùm on the port,
Eigg on the starboard bow;
Glory of youth glowed in his soul;
Where is that glory now?

[Chorus]

Give me again all that was there,
Give me the sun that shone!
Give me the eyes, give me the soul,
Give me the lad that's gone!

[Chorus]

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,
Mountains of rain and sun,
All that was good, all that was fair,
All that was me is gone.

[mcsangel2]

We saw several bagpipers busking on our recent trip to Scotland/Ireland/England (and in all three places). One of them was playing this song...I may or may not have given him a five pound note.

[cajunmom]

It's such a beautiful song, Outlander or not. Though I am glad that for the theme they changed it from "lad" to "lass", since it makes more sense for the show that way.

[Linie]

Thank you so very much for the link and the lyrics! I love that song.